Tense and Aspect
TAM:Tense-Aspect-Modality
> a grammatical paradigm
> the semantic domain from which the content
of a
grammatical item comes
→ Traditional grammar subsumed all verb forms that
express
tense and aspect under-tense", modern grammarians
tend to insist on separating tense and aspect.
Tense: the grammaticalization of location in time.
Locating a Situation in time relative to the moment of
utterance relational. It is also a deictic operation that
locates events and their contextual occasions with respect
to the here-and-now of speech. Aspect: view of the internal
temporal constituency of the Situation: differentiating stasis
from change; not deictic; e. g. completed us. continuing
situation.
Mood: verb inflections that express how the action or
TAM:Tense-Aspect-Modality
> a grammatical paradigm
> the semantic domain from which the content
of a
grammatical item comes
→ Traditional grammar subsumed all verb forms that
express
tense and aspect under-tense", modern grammarians
tend to insist on separating tense and aspect.
Tense: the grammaticalization of location in time.
Locating a Situation in time relative to the moment of
utterance relational. It is also a deictic operation that
locates events and their contextual occasions with respect
to the here-and-now of speech. Aspect: view of the internal
temporal constituency of the Situation: differentiating stasis
from change; not deictic; e. g. completed us. continuing
situation.
Mood: verb inflections that express how the action or
