This Cahiers Chronos volume reports on new and ongoing research on tense, aspect and modality in which a variety of languages has been gathered. The languages discussed by the authors include (in alphabetical order):Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek,Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Spanish.The articles form a selection of the papers presented at the 5th ChronosConference that took place at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, in June 2002. We have categorized the papers into three sections: Tense,Aspect and Modality. Obviously, this ordering is somewhat arbitrary given that some of the papers cross these rather rigid boundaries, as they discuss the interplay of tense and aspect or tense and modality.This book is of interest for scholars in the field of semantics, logic, syntax, and comparative linguistics.ContentsBart HOLLEBRANDSE, Angeliek van HOUT, Co VET: IntroductionAbraham P. TEN CATE: Descriptions of past events in GermanGriet BEHEYDT: The absolute and the relative present tense with future time references in English and DutchGretel De CUYPER: Noun phrases and temporal information in DutchBart HOLLEBRANDSE: Sequence of tense: New insights from cross-linguistic comparisonsLieven VANDELANOTTE: Tense in indirect speech and thought: Some proposed modificationsFabrizio AROSIO: Points of timeMaria ASNES: Incompatibility between telicity and homogeneity in FrenchPatrick CAUDAL: Degree scales and aspectArie MOLENDIJK: The imparfait in French and the past progressive in EnglishAthina SIOUPI: Morphological and telicity aspect with accomplishment VPs inGreekHenk VERKUYL: How (in-)sensitive is tense to aspectual information?Teresa Cristina WACHOWICZ: The aspectual reading of the progressive form inBrazilian PortugueseZonghua XIAO, Anthony McENERY: Situation aspect: A two-level approachAoife AHERN: Mood choice and sentence interpretation in SpanishRenaat DECLERCK: The relation between temporal and modal uses of indicative verb formsAndrea ROCCI: On the nature of the epistemic readings of the Italian modal verbs: The relationship between propositionality and inferential discourse relationsTom WERNER: The temporal interpretation of some modal Sentences in English (involving a future / epistemic alternation)