• Tenseaspectmood (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 tenseaspectmood (TAM) system. The English noun tense comes from Old French tens "time" (spelled temps...
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  • grammatical tense and person/number. There are eight simple tenseaspectmood forms, categorized into the indicative, subjunctive and imperative moods, with...
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  • of aspect is often conflated with the marking of tense and mood (see tenseaspectmood). Aspectual distinctions may be restricted to certain tenses: in...
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  • other modern Indo-European languages. (See tenseaspectmood for a discussion of this.) Some examples of moods are indicative, interrogative, imperative...
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  • chronology Tenseaspectmood, a wider set of verb features (colloquially "tense") Tenseness, a constrained pronunciation, especially of vowels Tense (album)...
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    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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  • 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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  • to mark modality, with a particular focus on its interaction with tenseaspectmood marking. Theoretical linguists have sought to analyze both the propositional...
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  • analysed as the present tense in contemporary Shanghainese, where 哉 has underwent lenition to 了. Grammatical aspect Tenseaspectmood Tense confusion Comrie...
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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 'person–number–gender element' and TAM 'tenseaspectmood element' (also NG number–gender, PN person–number, TA tenseaspect, TAME tenseaspectmood–evidential) etc. These...
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  • "you". Habitual aspect in Hindi-Urdu requires the copula rêhnā (to stay) to form future tense forms, progressive and perfective mood can use rêhnā (to...
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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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  • import 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • object), tense, aspect and mood, and generally a subject–verb–object word order. Swahili may be described in several ways depending on the aspect being considered...
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  • combine with different aspects of the verb. These pre-verb negatory particles can also be used to convey tense, mood, aspect, and polarity (negation)...
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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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