Duration in English: A Basic Choice, Illustrated in Comparison with Dutch Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	The systems of mood and aspect: Form and meaning	9
1	Time as represented in the present perfect/voltooid tegenwoordige tijd	9
2	Mood	12
3	Aspect	19
2	The first difference: Expressing "duration so far"	31
3	The second difference: The Transpast Transcendent and the expression of past time	43
1	The Transpast Transcendent: an event	44
1.1	Other grammarians on the Transpast Transcendent	46
2	Interceptive possibilities of the Transpast Transcendent	49
3	The second major difference between English and Dutch	59
4	The Transpast Transcendent in English + "past time" adverbs	63
5	A basic difference between the Transpast Transcendent and the Past Immanent in Dutch	67
4	The third difference: The elusiveness of present relevance	77
1	The nature of present relevance	78
1.1	Inferences	90
1.2	Experience	91
1.3	Primary versus secondary effects	93
1.4	Conditioning effect of a deceased subject	96
1.5	Persistence of the effect	98
2	Applying the explanation to the translation of Dutch examples	101
	Conclusion	113
1	Summary	113
2	Problem cases	115
2.1	Events just over	115
2.2	The verb forms after enumerative clauses	117
2.3	Coming back to Chapter 2	119
3	A general problem	121
4	A glance at two other Germanic languages	121
4.1	German	122
4.2	Swedish	123
5	A final remark	126
	Notes	129
	Bibliography	135
	Index	143