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tense–aspect–mood
Sign in to saveAlso known as tam, tense–modality–aspect, tma, Tense Mood Aspect, Tense-Mood-Aspect, TAM, TMA, kāla
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.
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- Tense–mood–aspect conflation
- Creoles
- Hawaiian Creole English
- Modern Greek
- Indo-Aryan languages
- Hindustani
- Slavic languages
- Russian
- Romance languages
- French
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Germanic languages
- German
- Danish
- Dutch
- Icelandic
- English
- The unmarked verb
- Morphological changes
- Conjugated compound verbs
- Invariant auxiliaries
- Basque
- Hawaiian
- See also
- References
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.
TAM covers the expression of three major components of words which lead to or assist in the correct understanding of the speaker's meaning: Tense—the position of the state or action in time, that is, whether it is in the past, present or future. Aspect—the extension of the state or action in time, that is, whether it is unitary (perfective), continuous (imperfective) or repeated (habitual). Mood or modality—the reality of the state or action, that is, whether it is actual (realis), a possibility or a necessity (irrealis).
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