Comparative Concept: TAMP (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
Definition
an abbreviation for the set of semantic categories of tense, aspect, modality, and polarity, which primarily describe certain semantic characteristics of the event denoted by a predicate. TAMP is morphosyntactically generally associated with the predicate, typically as a predicate inflection or expressed in an auxiliary construction. (Section 13.1.2)