James Higginbotham is Linda MacDonald Hilf Chair in Philosophy and Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Southern California. He was formerly Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Oxford. His research interests include the nature of linguistic competence, problems of compositionality, and indexical reference in thought and communication. He has published widely in linguistics and philosophy and is equally at home in both fields.

a valuable resource.

• Introduction ; 1. On Events in Linguistic Semantics ; 2. Tense, Indexicality, and Consequence ; 3. Tensed Toughts ; 4. Tensed Second Thoughts: Comments on Richard ; 5. Why is Sequence of Tense Obligatory? ; 6. The Anaphoric Theory of Tense ; 7. Accomplishments ; 8. The English progressive ; 9. The English perfect and the metaphysics of Events ; 10. Competence With Demonstratives ; 11. A Plea for Implicit Anaphora ; 12. Rembering, Imagining, and the First Person