This book is a collection of articles dealing with theoretical issues in the study of tense, mood and aspect, as well as with specific semantic and syntactic problems raised by linguistic expressions dedicated to these domains across a variety of languages. Through these papers, strong variations are explored, but also crosslinguistic convergences are investigated. Numerous phenomena so far often left aside in linguistics are described and enlightened by different scientific standpoints, which they serve to illustrate. The languages investigated in this volume include Germanic languages...

Ce numero des Cahiers Chronos est une selection d'articles presentes lors du Colloque Chronos 6 tenu a l'Universite de Geneve en 2004 (20-22 septembre, Syntaxe, semantique et pragmatique du temps, de la modalite et de l'aspect). Le theme de ce numero a permis de regrouper des articles couvrant une grande variete d'orientations theoriques tout en partageant des preoccupations theoriques et empiriques communes. Le theme general du numero, Information temporelle, procedures et ordre discursif, regroupe des articles portant sur des questions de reference temporelle, de description des...