TAM
i love me some event semantics (i assume TAM=Tense-Aspect-Mood?). what you can appreciate is the general ordering of speaker mood (about an event) > modality and tense (whether and roughly when an event occurred) > aspect (how an event occurred or occurs). so playing with the extreme ends you’ll find that in english “he completely already frankly fucked up” is not as ‘felicitous’ (the semantic version of ‘grammatical’) as “he frankly already completely fucked up”. that’s basically what i interpret this hierarchy as saying.
(Source: nyomklyu)
