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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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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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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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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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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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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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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analysed as the present tense in contemporary Shanghainese, where 哉 has underwent lenition to 了. Grammatical aspect Tense–aspect–mood Tense confusion Comrie...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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"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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Hawaiian grammar (section Tense, aspect, and mood)
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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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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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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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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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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Swahili grammar (section Tenses, aspects and moods)
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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Affirmation and negation (redirect from Negative mood)
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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