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Part 1 Introduction. Part 2 The verb: the forms; the problem. Part 3Tense: time and tense; the present form; the past and future forms; theatemporal form; the semantics and pragmatics of tense; form, meaning, contextand usage. Part 4 Orientation: time, tense and orientation; the anteriorpast, future and atemporal forms; the anterior present form; the semanticsand pragmatics of orientation; form, meaning, context and usage. Part 5Aspect: the perfective and imperfective past forms; the overt and nonovertforms; ser and estar; the semantics and pragmatics of aspect. Part 6 Mood:subordinate nominal clauses; subordinate adverbial clauses; relative clauses;independent clauses; the semantics and pragmatics of mood. Part 7 Partitivityand deixis: determiners - the forms, the definite and indefinite determiners,the demonstrative and possessive determiners; grammatical number; syntacticconsequences of the semantic notion of partitivity. Part 8 Status: thesemantics of direct object "a". Part 9 The comparative semantics of Spanishand English: lexical semantics, grammatical meaning and systematic semantics;the verb; determiners and grammatical number.