DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmatemporality
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaDik (1989)
TitoloThe theory of functional grammar. Part I: the structure of the clause
Sinonimi 
Rinviiaspect (inglese)
aspectuality (inglese)
mood (inglese)
tense (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

Temporality distinctions serve to locate the SoA [state of affairs], as designated by the predication, at some interval along the time axis. Temporality may be grammatically coded in Tense operators, or expressed by lexical means.
- Dik (1989), Pag. 202