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Part 1 Introduction: what are aspectual classes?; controlling the flowof information - filters, plugs and holes; situated reasoning abouttime. Part 2 The aspectual verbs: the linguistic data; negation andduality - the basic tools; monotonicity properties; the aspectual cube.Part 3 Dynamic aspect trees: aspect as control structure; DATs fortexts; reasoning with DATs - chronoscopes; DATs - their syntax andsemantics. Part 4 States, generic information and constraints:transient states; progressive and perfect states; generic information;conditionals and temporal quantification. Part 5 Perspectives:perspectival coherence and chronoscopes; perspectival refinement;perspectival binding; scenes and scenarios. Part 6 A fragment ofEnglish: syntax and lexicon; DAT rules; semantics; further issues. Part7 Epilogue: cognition and semantic representation; referring withparameters; naturalized semantic realism and universal grammar.