• subcategory of deontic modality. Volitive moods are a category of grammatical moods that are used to express volitive modality. Examples are the optative...
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  • Deontic modality (abbreviated DEO) is a linguistic modality that indicates how the world ought to be according to certain norms, expectations, speaker...
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  • the approach to volition in Sinhalese by considering case role. Because volitive classed verbs do not assign case in Sinhala, the volitive case marker is...
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  • linguistics and philosophy, modality refers to the ways language can express various relationships to reality or truth. For instance, a modal expression may convey...
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  • Glossary of Linguistic Terms. 2015-12-03. Retrieved 2020-08-12. "Volitive Modality". SIL Glossary of Linguistic Terms. 2015-12-03. Retrieved 2020-08-12...
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  • Tense–aspect–mood (commonly abbreviated tam) or tense–modality–aspect (abbreviated as tma) is a group of grammatical categories that are important to understanding...
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  • Grammatical mood (category Linguistic modality)
    Greek From SIL International: Deontic modality Volitive modality: imprecative mood, optative mood Directive modality: deliberative mood, imperative mood...
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  • Palmer, Robert L. Mood & Modality. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2001 Palmer, Robert L. Modality & The English Modals. Longman, London. 1979...
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    -suká. Present tense or imperfect Perfect and pluperfect Future tense Volitive modality This constructed language has raised several concerns on the part...
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  • This article covers free indications of frequency, probability, volition and obligation. The gerundive of the verb (an adjectival form ending in -ndus)...
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  • inferential evidentials also indicate epistemic modality, such as uncertainty or probability (see epistemic modality below). For example, one evidential may indicate...
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  • interjections can be classified into three types of meaning: volitive, emotive, or cognitive. Volitive interjections function as imperative or directive expressions;...
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  • completely finished. That is mostly true. We want to stay in part. ModalModal adjuncts establish the extent to which the speaker views the action...
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  • the chicken.' The jussive mood can be expressed in Esperanto using the volitive verb form, which is made by adding -u to a verb stem. Iru! (Go!) Mi petis...
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  • Related to verbs Associated motion Clusivity Conjugation Evidentiality Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical...
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  • Related to verbs Associated motion Clusivity Conjugation Evidentiality Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical...
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  • Related to verbs Associated motion Clusivity Conjugation Evidentiality Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical...
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    prospective aspect/cohortative mood, affirmative/negative-volitive, unrealised-volitive?, negative?, affirmative?, polaritive[citation needed], and...
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  • Related to verbs Associated motion Clusivity Conjugation Evidentiality Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical...
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  • test is, however, limited. It incorrectly suggests, for instance, that modal adverbs (e.g. probably, certainly, maybe) and manner expressions (e.g. quickly...
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  • Related to verbs Associated motion Clusivity Conjugation Evidentiality Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical...
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  • an example that Kant gave of such a derivative category; the second, "Modality", introduced by Kant, was a term which Hegel, in developing Kant's dialectical...
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  • Related to verbs Associated motion Clusivity Conjugation Evidentiality Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical...
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  • take, whether finished, repeated or habitual. Mood, varying according to modality, or the speaker's attitude towards the action. Although the use of terms...
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  • defines abilities in terms of what one would do if one had the volition to do so. For modal theories of ability, by contrast, having an ability means that...
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  • There are three modals which can appear in the serial verb construction and are negative (taigha), prohibitive (tabu) or non-volitive (kou). Lastly, there...
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  • is not the case. In some cases, however, particularly when a particular modality is expressed, the semantic effect of negation may be somewhat different...
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