timeadverbial
Timeadverbial (often written as two words in description, though typically seen as time adverbial in practice) refers to an expression that provides information about when an event occurs and functions as an adverbial of time. They include single-word adverbs (yesterday, now, soon), prepositional phrases indicating time (in the morning, last week, during the summer), and temporal clauses (when I arrived, after the meeting ended). Time adverbials answer questions about timing, such as when an action took place, and can anchor the proposition to the reference time of the utterance. They may be deictic, relying on the time of speech (today, tomorrow), or non-deictic, anchored to another time point (two years ago, next month).
The primary role of time adverbials is to establish temporal context, indicate sequencing, and aid cohesion
Cross-linguistic variation is common. Some languages permit a wide range of placements for time adverbials, while