Grammatical categories of the verb

This chapter tackles Romance verbs by focusing on the correlationsbetween verb morphology and grammatical functions in the domain of Temporal-Aspectual-Modaldimensions (TAM). Interfaces with actional properties of predications (Aktionsart)as well as the boundary between modality and evidentiality will also beconsidered. With the aim of providing an overview of what makes Romance verbsmorphologically recognizable as a word class, the first part reviews formalfeatures of verb paradigms, including non-linear morphology (prosodic patternsand stem alternations), with a particular focus on possible morphomic discrepanciesin form-function correlations. In the second part, the perspective will bereversed by following an onomasiological account, in which the role of polyfunctionalitywill be highlighted, also analyzing to what extent interactions of TAMfunctions within and across tenses / moods qualify as special features of verbsemantics as opposed to other word classes.