@article{2017,title={Modality, Aspect and Tense in Literature and Turkish Course Books: A Proposal for Classification},abstractNode={Modality, aspect and tense are the verbal categories analysed frequently by the linguists in current studies. Although the tense in these categories analysed typically, modality is randomly studied, the aspect is not enough studied. In many studies outside the Turkish literature, although there are classifications made on these three categories for each one, the categories are not considered seperately, in these classifications. For tense, there is a taxonomy of past, present and future which is common in almost all languages. Aspectual classifications are based mostly on the contradictions between “perfect/imperfect”. Although the mood is depicted as the manner of verb, modality is the form of mood in grammar. The lack of descriptions about these three categories in literature is reflected to the Turkish course books and the process of Turkish education exactly. Tense is processed in Turkish course books (as past, present, future and aorist), but the aspect is never processed. And the modality as described in the literature is processed differently in Turkish course books. There are significant differences between the descriptions / classifications of these three categories and the descriptions / classifications in the teaching process of Turkish and Turkish course books. For overcoming this differences, a new and a compatible classification constructed on the base of classifications in the literature is required. And then, this requirement have to be reflected to the Turkish lessons and Turkish course books. In this study, the descriptions on modality, aspect and tense in the literature and the informations about these categories in Turkish course books is compared and a new classification is introduced on the base of the assumption of the requirement of a classification.},author={Sercan DEMİRGÜNEŞ},year={2017},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}