T. claims that the familiar categories attributed to verbs and verbal morphology (e.g. tense, aspect and modality) all form part of a larger set of deictic grammatical systems composed of a perceptual or cognitive spatio-temporal-existential cline related to how an encoder may view actions, states and events during the process of encoding a message within a longer discourse to a decoder. This is illustrated by examining the favoured versus disfavoured collocations of the Modern Hebrew future tense.