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  2. Hortative - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, hortative modalities (/ ˈ h ɔːr t ə t ɪ v / ⓘ; abbreviated HORT) are verbal expressions used by the speaker to encourage or discourage an action. Different hortatives can be used to express greater or lesser intensity, or the speaker's attitude, for or against it.

  3. Sentence function - Wikipedia

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    An exclamative is a sentence type in English that typically expresses a feeling or emotion, but does not use one of the other structures. It often has the form as in the examples below of [WH + Complement + Subject + Verb], but can be minor sentences (i.e. without a verb) such as [WH + Complement] How wonderful!.

  4. Irrealis mood - Wikipedia

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    The hortative or hortatory mood is used to express plea, insistence, imploring, self-encouragement, wish, desire, intent, command, purpose or consequence. It does not ...

  5. Grammatical mood - Wikipedia

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    e IPFV. TAM hina’aro like na DEIX vau SG tō DEF mei’a banana ra DEIX e hina’aro na vau tō mei’a ra IPFV.TAM like DEIX SG DEF banana DEIX 'I would like those bananas (you mentioned).' Mortlockese Mortlockese is an Austronesian language made up of eleven dialects over the eleven atolls that make up the Mortlock Islands in Micronesia. Various TAM markers are used in the language. Mood ...

  6. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    This article lists common abbreviations for grammatical terms that are used in linguistic interlinear glossing of oral languages [nb 1] in English.. The list provides conventional glosses as established by standard inventories of glossing abbreviations such as the Leipzig Glossing rules, [2] the most widely known standard.

  7. Optative mood - Wikipedia

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    The optative mood (/ ˈ ɒ p t ə t ɪ v / OP-tə-tiv or / ɒ p ˈ t eɪ t ɪ v / op-TAY-tiv; [1] abbreviated OPT) is a grammatical mood that indicates a wish or hope regarding a given action.It is a superset of the cohortative mood and is closely related to the subjunctive mood but is distinct from the desiderative mood.

  8. Imperative mood - Wikipedia

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    Imperative mood is often expressed using special conjugated verb forms. Like other finite verb forms, imperatives often inflect for person and number.Second-person imperatives (used for ordering or requesting performance directly from the person being addressed) are most common, but some languages also have imperative forms for the first and third persons (alternatively called cohortative and ...

  9. Bororo language - Wikipedia

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    Purpose / Hortative [ edit ] The "purpose" suffix - wö indicates that the action in question is the desired result of another (itself usually marked with neutral aspect).