ABSTRACT
If aspect is the way that an event patterns within or over a time frame, tense is the way an event is explicitly indexed for a time frame, the grammatical and morphological means that a language uses to locate an event in time. Aspect encodes the nondeictic contour of events; tense signals the deictic contour insofar as such concepts as 'location in time' and 'relative order' are deictic because they require reference points for their determination. We thus get considerable use out of our previous discussion of deixis now that we are required to apply it to the structure of events and their temporal location.
