In his insightful and stimulating article, Casasanto (this issue) argues that "people who talk differently about time also think about it differently, in ways that correspond to the preferred metaphors in their native languages. Language not only reflects the structure of our temporal representations, but it can also shape those representations. Beyond influencing how people think when they are required to speak or understand language, language can also shape our basic, nonlinguistic perceptuomotor representations of time." Casasanto introduces material from spatiotemporal metaphors in Greek to argue this point. This brief commentary sketches a further potential source for exploratory work in this area, having to do with Nominal Tense Aspect Mood (TAM). (Contains 1 table.)