Time in linguistics

category that locates a situation in time, to indicate when the situation takes place

characteristic of the meaning of verbs

In literary theory and philosophy of language, the chronotope is how configurations of time and space are represented in language and discourse. The term was taken up by Russian literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin who used it as a central element in his theory of meaning in language and literature. The term itself comes from the Russian , which in turn is derived from the Greek '''' ('time') and '''' ('space'); it thus can be literally translated as "time-space." Bakhtin developed the term in his 1937 essay "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel" («»). Here Bakhtin showed how different

Tense–aspect–mood (commonly abbreviated ' in linguistics) or tense–modality–aspect (abbreviated as TMA') is an important group of grammatical categories, which are marked in different ways by different languages.

possible grammatical tense distinctions