In linguistics, grammatical mood is a grammatical feature of verbs, used for signaling modality.: 181 That is, it is the use of verbal inflections that...
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A realis mood (abbreviated REAL) is a grammatical mood which is used principally to indicate that something is a statement of fact; in other words, to...
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In linguistics, irrealis moods (abbreviated IRR) are the main set of grammatical moods that indicate that a certain situation or action is not known to...
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Tense–aspect–mood (commonly abbreviated tam in linguistics) or tense–modality–aspect (abbreviated as tma) is an important group of grammatical categories...
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Evidentiality (redirect from Quotative evidential mood)
languages are mostly like English in not having grammatical evidentiality, but do have a conditional mood which has three uses: conditions, future-in-the-past...
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grammatical mood of verbs for issuing orders, commanding, or exhorting (within a subjunctive framework). English verbs are not marked for this mood....
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The optative mood (/ˈɒptətɪv/ OP-tə-tiv or /ɒpˈteɪtɪv/ op-TAY-tiv; abbreviated OPT) is a grammatical mood that indicates a wish or hope regarding a given...
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The assumptive mood (abbreviated ASS) is an epistemic grammatical mood found in some languages, which indicates that the statement is assumed to be true...
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In linguistics, a grammatical category or grammatical feature is a property of items within the grammar of a language. Within each category there are...
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The deductive mood is an epistemic grammatical mood that indicates that the truth of the statement was deduced from other information, rather than being...
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Deliberative mood (abbreviated DEL) is a grammatical mood that asks whether the speaker should do something, e. g. "Shall I go to the market?" The Afar...
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Dubitative mood (abbreviated DUB) is an epistemic grammatical mood found in some languages, that indicates that the statement is dubious, doubtful, or...
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Dependence of moods and tenses Aspect in Standard Chinese Grammatical conjugation Grammatical tense Grammatical mood Nominal TAM (tense–aspect–mood) Tense–aspect–mood...
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The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that forms a command or request. The imperative mood is used to demand or require that an action be performed...
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Hypothetical mood (abbreviated HYP) is an epistemic grammatical mood found in some languages (for example Lakota) which indicates that while a statement...
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Central Alaskan Yupʼik (section Grammatical mood)
depending on grammatical mood. The language grammatically distinguishes three numbers: singular, dual, and plural. There is no marking of grammatical gender...
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subjunctive (also known as the conjunctive in some languages) is a grammatical mood, a feature of an utterance that indicates the speaker's attitude toward...
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Deontic modality (redirect from Deontic mood)
orders given. Deontic moods are a category of grammatical moods that are used to express deontic modality. An example for a deontic mood is the imperative...
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Speculative mood (abbreviated SPEC) is an epistemic grammatical mood found in some languages, which indicates that the utterance is based on speculation...
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The injunctive mood is a grammatical mood in Sanskrit that was characterized by secondary endings but no augment, and usually looked like an augmentless...
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every verb. Verbs may inflect for grammatical categories such as person, number, gender, case, tense, aspect, mood, voice, possession, definiteness, politeness...
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The conditional mood (abbreviated cond) is a grammatical mood used in conditional sentences to express a proposition whose validity is dependent on some...
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the construction. The aggressive has playfully been described as a grammatical mood by the inventor of the term, but the construction operates on the syntactical...
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The inferential mood (abbreviated INFER or INFR) is used to report a nonwitnessed event without confirming it, but the same forms also function as admiratives...
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The permissive mood is a grammatical mood that indicates that the action is permitted by the speaker. It is one of the optative mood forms that survived...
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Runway Mood (TV series), 2022 British drama Grammatical mood, one of a set of morphologically distinctive forms that are used to signal modality Mood (literature)...
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Interrogative (redirect from Interrogative mood)
inflectional form, it is often referred to as interrogative grammatical mood. Interrogative mood or other interrogative forms may be denoted by the glossing...
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the common tense-mood marker. Hindi-Urdu has 3 grammatical aspectsː Habitual, Perfective, and Progressive; and 5 grammatical moodsː Indicative, Presumptive...
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through a process of morphological derivation. Desiderative mood is a kind of volitive mood. In Sanskrit, the desiderative is formed through the suffixing...
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Epistemic modality (redirect from Epistemic mood)
be a good chess player"), particular grammatical moods on verbs, the epistemic moods, or a specific grammatical element, such as an affix (Tuyuca: -hīyi...
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