Investigates the semantics of aspect from both a theoretical and a crosslinguistic point of view, in a range of languages from a number of different language families. This volume discusses the languages that include Russian, English, Dutch, Hebrew, Mandarin, Japanese and Kalaallisut.

1. Introduction (by Rothstein, Susan D.); 2. Part I. Tense, aspect and Vendler classes; 3. 1. Lexicalized meaning and the internal temporal structure of events (by Hovav, Malka Rappaport); 4. 2. Telicity, atomicity and the Vendler classification of verbs (by Rothstein, Susan D.); 5. 3. Aspects of a typology of direction (by Zwarts, Joost); 6. 4. 1066: On the differences between the tense-perspective-aspect systems of English and Dutch (by Landman, Fred); 7. 5. Tenses for the living and the dead: Lifetime inferences reconsidered (by Mittwoch, Anita); 8. Part II. Issues in Slavic aspect; 9. 6. Formal and informal semantics of telicity (by Paducheva, Elena); 10. 7. Events and maximalization: The case of telicity and perfectivity (by Filip, Hana); 11. 8. Aspect and bounded quantity complements in Russian (by Mehlig, Hans Robert); 12. 9. Negation, intensionality, and aspect: Interaction with NP semantics (by Partee, Barbara H.); 13. Part III. Aspect in non-Indoeuropean languages; 14. 10. Habituality and the habitual aspect (by Boneh, Nora); 15. 11. Aspectual universals of temporal anaphora (by Bittner, Maria); 16. 12. The syntax and semantics of change/transition: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese (by Soh, Hooi Ling); 17. 13. Bare nouns and telicity in Japanese (by Yoshida, Keiko)