1. Introduction (by Vogeleer, Svetlana); 2. The Progressive in Japanese and Temporal Advancement in Narrative (by Ayano, Seiki); 3. On the Semantics of the Spanish Progressive Sequence ir + gerund (by Espunya, Anna); 4. Frequency and Tense Use in French (by Molendijk, Arie); 5. Adverbials of Aspectual Focus and Negation in Dutch (by Smessaert, Hans); 6. Aspects Of (Un)Boundedness (by Wyngaerd, Guido Vanden); 7. Changing Culture Changing Grammar: A Cross-Categorial Hypothesis on the Loss of the Perfectum in Romance (by Manoliu, Maria M.); 8. A Perfect Piece? The Present Perfect And Passe Compose In Journalistic Texts (by Engel, Dulcie M.); 9. "Tell me, Socrates ...": Verbal Aspect, Focus and Questioning Strategies in Ancient Greek (by Pitavy, Jean-Christophe); 10. The Linguistic Expression of a Semantic Relation: The Connectives of Simultaneity in French (by Aslanides, Sophie); 11. Reference Values In Present-tense When-Clauses (by Dilys, Rosalind); 12. The Referentiality of Tenses (by Janssen, Theo)