• "irrealis" for particular morphological markers or clause types. Many languages with irrealis mood make further subdivisions between kinds of irrealis...
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  • irrealis mood is used to express something that is not known to be the case in reality. An example of the contrast between realis and irrealis moods is...
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  • is an irrealis verb form. Some languages have distinct irrealis grammatical verb forms. Many Indo-European languages preserve a subjunctive mood. Some...
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  • (habitual). Mood or modality—the reality of the state or action, that is, whether it is actual (realis), a possibility or a necessity (irrealis). For example...
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  • White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood is the fifteenth studio album by American indie rock band of Montreal, released on March 9, 2018. Singer Kevin Barnes said...
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  • subjunctive is one of the irrealis moods, which refer to what is not necessarily real. It is often contrasted with the indicative, a realis mood which principally...
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  • English, and Old Norse. This use of the (new) optative past tense as an irrealis mood started apparently after the Proto-Germanic past tense that had been...
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    Old Javanese (section Mood)
    denasalisation phenomenon can happen. Irrealis mood can be indicated by suffix -a to the verbs. The active irrealis verb can be constructed as active affixes...
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  • and jussive). Imperative mood can be denoted by the glossing abbreviation IMP. It is one of the irrealis moods. Imperative mood is often expressed using...
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    surprise, entitled Rune Husk. On March 9, 2018, the album White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood was released on Polyvinyl, with singer Barnes explaining that the sound...
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  • "the minister said that + indicative" are preferred. Balkan sprachbund Irrealis mood For a more precise rendering, it would be possible to also translate...
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  • between realis and irrealis events in Yimas, which accounts for the main variation in tense suffixes. In particular, the irrealis suffix /-k/ indicates...
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    mood encompassing SAE past and present) compared to things that have as yet not occurred, but which may or may not occur in the future (irrealis mood)...
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  • Relic/Irrealis Mood did not enter the US Billboard 200, but peaked at number 79 on the Top Current Albums Chart. "White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood" did not...
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  • don't know what happened, because you started the whole thing"). The irrealis mood marker be, having no intrinsic tense refers to a current or future event...
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  • and/or universal language tendencies. Some Creoles model a future tense/irrealis mood marker on "go" from the superstrate (analogous to English "am going...
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  • present irrealis ḭš-tachalá̰x-lḭ PAST-shatter-PFV ḭš-tachalá̰x-lḭ PAST-shatter-PFV ‘it could have shattered now (but hasn’t)’ future irrealis ka-tḭ-tachalá̰x-lḭ...
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    constraints of reality or time." This shift from the realis to the irrealis mood is understood by all participants within the reference group. It enables...
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  • happen in the future, in which case it is considered 'unreal', or of irrealis mood, the event still only in the realm of thought or imagination. Ch(i)...
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  • that" (final) aysh: subjunctive, optative (marks the sentence as an irrealis mood) Subordination is relatively uncommon in Wenja; the language generally...
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  • tense. Irrealis mood - a mood of language, where the proposition is weakly asserted to be true, and not readily backed up with evidence. Irrealis verb forms...
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  • some cases, realis mood is used to convey present tense — often to indicate a state of being. Wuvulu speakers use an irrealis mood to convey future tense...
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    existed for a very long time for both scientists and philosophers. The irrealis moods are ways to categorize it or to speak about it. This helps explain the...
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  • element' and TAM 'tense–aspect–mood element' (also NG number–gender, PN person–number, TA tense–aspect, TAME tense–aspect–mood–evidential) etc. These are...
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  • to the preverbal negative particles ‘hi’ (1) or to the irrealis particle ‘ni’ (2). Irrealis mood is how a speaker marks something as not known to have...
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  • at the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database. Alphabet and pronunciation R:Realis:Realis mood Irr:Irrealis:Irrealis mood OBJ:Object:Object (grammar)...
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    sentences). Some creole languages have a marker of future time reference (or irrealis mood) modeled on the verb "go" as found in the going-to future of the English...
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    English subjunctive (category Grammatical moods)
    here", traditionally known as the "past subjunctive", is instead called irrealis. According to this narrow definition, the subjunctive is a grammatical...
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    in the irrealis mood, the suffixes are as follows: -k: same-subject -km different-subject In this case, the reference clause bears the irrealis morphology:...
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    Malotki may be better understood as a distinction between realis and irrealis moods. Regardless of exactly how the Hopi concept of time is best analyzed...
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