ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how the French creoles express tense, mood, and aspect. After a brief outline of tense, mood, and aspect in English and French, it examines the different pre-verbal markers which the French creoles have developed in order to express their temporal, modal, and aspectual meanings. It also examines the relation of tense and aspect to defi niteness and specifi city in a few of these creoles. The position of these markers in relation to the verb in a sentence and in relation to each other is also discussed.
