Temporality surveys the ways in which languages of different types refer to past present and future events through an in-depth examination of four major language types: tense-based English tense-aspect-based Polish aspect-based Chinese and mood-based Kalaallisut. Cutting-edge research on directly compositional dynamic semantics of languages with and without grammatical tense New in-depth analysis of temporal aspectual modal as well as nominal discourse reference Presents a novel logical language for representing linguistic meaning (Update with Centering) Develops a unified theory of tense aspect mood and person as different types of grammatical centering systems