Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along
with a strongly growing body of crosslinguistic studies, has revealed complexity in the data
that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these categories. Mood, Aspect,
Modality Revisited argues that it's time to revisit our conventional assumptions and
reconsider our foundational questions: What exactly is a linguistic category? What kinds of
categories do labels such as “subjunctive,”“imperative,”“future,” and “modality” truly refer to …