linguistic perspective, whereas Train, taking a contemporary viewpoint, discusses for- eign language ideology and its relation to pedagogy in the classroom context+ Tuller , Blondel, and Niederberger consider bilingual development in French and French sign language+ Mather presents models of creole genesis as well as evidence from various French creoles that have been used to support these models+ Sonaiya discusses issues in French applied linguistics in West Africa, and Caldas provides a narrative that ad- dresses French in Louisiana+ Many of these chapters provide interesting overviews of work outside the field of SLA in its strictest sense, but they may prove informative to researchers who are unfamiliar with these particular contexts+ Although some of the chapters would be interesting and appropriate for a beginning graduate course in French linguistics, others are quite specialized and would prove chal- lenging to students without a solid background in the subfield under discussion+ All in all, with its broad range of timely topics and qualified authors, this book is certainly a valuable addition to the resources available in French applied linguistics+ ~ Received 12 October 2007! Tamara Lindner Indiana University doi:10+10170S0272263108080789 TENSE, MOOD AND ASPECT: THEORETICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ISSUES. Louis de Saussure, Jacques Moeschler, and Genoveva Puskas (Eds.)+ New York: Rodopi, 2007+ Pp+ vii + 239+ $70+00 paper + This English-language contribution to the Cahiers Chronos series—mainly published in French—presents a rare opportunity to catch up on new European developments in this active field of research through this collection of selected papers from the 6th Chro- nos colloquium+ The chapters focus mostly on semantic issues in the study of tense, mood, and aspect ~TMA! as well as on comparing and contrasting linguistic expres- sions that reflect these grammatical categories across a variety of languages+ The range of topics in this work is fairly broad, as related issues such as grammaticalization, pre- suppositions, questions in dialogue, illocutionary acts, argument structure, and first lan- guage ~L1! acquisition are brought in to shed light onto TMA meanings+ In what I found to be the most engaging chapter , Co Vet takes up the classical Reichen- bach formalism that represents tense and aspect with the points Event, Speech, and Reference ~R!+ Using the French system of tenses as examples, he cogently points out that R is not useful in mapping future eventualities+ He proposes a binary formalism using a perspective point to solve such classical problems as the polysemy of the passé composé+ Other chapters that deal with aspect include Smessaert’s chapter on Dutch adverbs charting the internal structure of events, Asnes’s chapter on the contribution of the external argument to the aspectual composition of clausal meaning, Currell and Coll’s chapter on present perfect in Catalan, and Arsenjevic’s chapter on Serbo-Croatian and Czech perfective prefixes+ Arsenjevic argues that all prefixes are resultative ~not a novel idea by far! but also treats them as agreement markers between the causal and the resulting subevent, which is a fresh approach+ Finally , Delidaki checks the validity of the aspect before tense hypothesis in child Greek+ Book Reviews 543