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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languages may be described in terms of a combined tense–aspect–mood (TAM) system. The English noun tense comes from Old French tens "time" (spelled temps...
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French verbs (redirect from French Present conditional tense)
grammatical tense and person/number. There are eight simple tense–aspect–mood forms, categorized into the indicative, subjunctive and imperative moods, with...
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Verb (section Tense, aspect, and modality)
many languages, verbs are inflected (modified in form) to encode tense, aspect, mood, and voice. A verb may also agree with the person, gender or number...
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other modern Indo-European languages. (See tense–aspect–mood for a discussion of this.) Some examples of moods are indicative, interrogative, imperative...
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of aspect is often conflated with the marking of tense and mood (see tense–aspect–mood). Aspectual distinctions may be restricted to certain tenses: in...
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Coptic language (section Tense/aspect/mood inflection)
of the tense/aspect/mood categories is shown in the following table: An unusual feature of Coptic is the extensive use of a set of "second tenses", which...
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Bislama (section Tense/aspect/mood markers)
trink 'drink'; save 'know'; se 'say'. Verbs do not conjugate. The tense, aspect and mood of a sentence are indicated with markers such as stap, bin and bae...
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Maasai language (section Tense-aspect-mood)
done by a female). Present tense in Maasai includes habitual actions, such as "I wake up" or "I cook breakfast". Past tense refers only to a past action...
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cannot inflect for tense-aspect-mood like verbs do, the copula cah 'to be' is required for nominal predication outside of the present tense, in which case...
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Uses of English verb forms (redirect from Simple aspect)
was going and would have gone They can be used to express tense (time reference), aspect, mood, modality and voice, in various configurations. For details...
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Cook Islands Māori (section Tense-Aspect-Mood markers)
Marker Aspect Examples Tē... nei present continuous Tē manako nei au i te ʻoki ki te ʻare : I am thinking of going back to the house Tē kata nei rātou :...
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Enga language (section Tense-aspect-mood)
expresses the inflectional categories of the noun such as tense, aspect, person, number, gender or mood. The suffixes can be broken down into two main groups:...
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Nominal TAM (redirect from Nominal tense)
Nominal TAM is the indication of tense–aspect–mood by inflecting a noun, rather than a verb. In clausal nominal TAM, the noun indicates TAM information...
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analysed as the present tense in contemporary Shanghainese, where 哉 has undergone lenition to 了. Grammatical aspect Tense–aspect–mood Tense confusion Comrie...
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Louisiana Creole (section Tense, aspect, mood)
creole languages, Louisiana Creole features preverbal markers of tense, aspect and mood as listed in the table below The vocabulary of Louisiana Creole...
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Chuj language (section Tense-Aspect)
Tiʼ Chuj, ALMG, 2007, p.34 Robertson, John S. (1992). A history of tense/aspect/mood/voice in the Mayan verbal complex. Austin, Texas: University of Texas...
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to mark modality, with a particular focus on its interaction with tense–aspect–mood marking. Theoretical linguists have sought to analyze both the propositional...
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Neo-Mandaic (section Tense, aspect, mood, and voice)
which serves only to indicate verbal inflections such as person, tense, mood, and aspect; the meaning of these compounds is primarily derived from the non-verbal...
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language, English verbs are not heavily inflected. Most combinations of tense, aspect, mood and voice are expressed periphrastically, using constructions with...
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'person–number–gender element' and TAM 'tense–aspect–mood element' (also NG number–gender, PN person–number, TA tense–aspect, TAME tense–aspect–mood–evidential) etc. These...
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Hawaiian grammar (section Tense, aspect, and mood)
four-hundreds') Verbs can be analytically marked with particles to indicate tense, aspect and mood. Separate verb markers are used in relative clauses, after the negation...
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neutral, generic, or universal aspect, mood, or tense, is a grammatical feature (which may refer to aspect, mood, or tense) that expresses general truths...
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Eyak language (section Tense, mood, and aspect)
in position 5. Tense/aspect/mood B1: GA, ø ~ A, : ~ A Subject: xw (1 sg.), ø ~ y(i) (2 sg.), lAX (2 pl.), ø (all else) Tense/aspect/mood B2: sA ~ s (perfective)...
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for grammatical categories such as person, number, gender, case, tense, aspect, mood, voice, possession, definiteness, politeness, causativity, clusivity...
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analysis. For example, the meanings associated with the categories of tense, aspect and mood are often bound up in verb conjugation patterns that do not have...
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present tense takes the suffix -r, except for a few strong verbs that have irregular non-past forms. The past form does not necessarily mark past tense, but...
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Tsez language (section Tense-aspect-mood)
-čʼV with V being a vowel that can be different, depending on the tense/aspect/mood of the verb; it is inserted after the verb stem. With the example...
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Evidentiality (redirect from Quotative evidential mood)
with grammatical evidentiality mark evidentiality independently from tense-aspect or epistemic modality, which is the speaker's evaluation of the information...
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chronology Tense–aspect–mood, a wider set of verb features (colloquially "tense") Tenseness, a constrained pronunciation, especially of vowels Tense (album)...
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