The domains of tense and aspect have received considerable attention in the past twodecades. Both the perceptual and linguistic meanings that are involved in expressing temporalityhave been focused on, and investigators have set out to discover the linguistic forms used toexpress these meanings. Tense and Aspect in Discourse aims at providing a betterunderstanding of the textual and contextual interplay between aspectual meanings, linguisticforms, and their discourse functions. It provides a variety of very useful discussions of pertinentissues in this area.