Christian Rohrer

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.

This book is intended for linguistic specialists, and deals with several problematic issues related to the linguistic structure of the English verb within a semantic framework. It contains five papers written within a research project the aim of which was to describe the central categories of the English verb (viz. tense and aspect) by means of methods and descriptive devices generally used in the field of formal logic. The papers discuss areas of the English temporal system that are notoriously difficult to grasp both for learners of the language and grammarians.