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Pages in category "Grammatical moods" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
In linguistics, grammatical mood is a grammatical feature of verbs, used for signaling modality. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] : 181 [ 3 ] That is, it is the use of verbal inflections that allow speakers to express their attitude toward what they are saying (for example, a statement of fact, of desire, of command, etc.).
There are indicative mood forms for, in addition to the future-as-viewed-from-the-past usage of the conditional mood form, the following combinations: future; an imperfective past tense–aspect combination whose form can also be used in contrary-to-fact "if" clauses with present reference; a perfective past tense–aspect combination whose ...
Volitive moods are a category of grammatical moods that are used to express volitive modality. Examples are the optative , desiderative and imprecative moods . [ 1 ] However, many languages (like English) have other ways to express volitive modality, for example modal verbs (" Wish that you were here!", " May he live forever!").
Grammatical moods (45 P) M. Modal logic (6 C, 50 P) Modal metaphysics (1 C, 19 P) N. Necessity (2 C, 10 P) P. Possibility (1 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Linguistic ...
In linguistics, a grammatical category or grammatical feature is a property of items within the grammar of a language. Within each category there are two or more possible values (sometimes called grammemes), which are normally mutually exclusive. Frequently encountered grammatical categories include: Case, varying according to function.
Hypothetical mood (abbreviated HYP) is an epistemic grammatical mood found in some languages (for example Lakota) which indicates that while a statement is not actually true, it could easily have been. [1] For instance, in English, "You know you shouldn't play with knives!
Grammatical moods (45 P) Morphemes (5 C, 15 P) Morphologists (49 P) Morphology books (6 P) Morphophonology (7 P) N. Nouns by type (18 P) P. Parts of speech (13 C, 54 ...