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In some languages, like Welsh, verbs have special inflections to be used in negative clauses. (In some language families, this may lead to reference to a negative mood.) An example is Japanese, which conjugates verbs in the negative after adding the suffix -nai (indicating negation), e.g. taberu ("eat") and tabenai ("do not eat").
The primary subject concords (subj1) are used for the subject in all tenses of the positive indicative mood. They are underlyingly low-toned in the first and second person, and high-toned in the remainder. Secondary subject concords (subj2) are used for the subject on all verbs marked with negation and on verbs marked for the subjunctive mood.
[viii] [ix] [x] [xi] In turn, a relative tense may be “relative to absolute” (secondary) [xii] if it relates the represented event to the primary tense [xiii] [xiv]. Read more about possible tenses in the article on grammatical tense. Imperative clauses represent actions to be carried out (read more on Imperative mood). While indicated ...
A verb together with its dependents, excluding its subject, may be identified as a verb phrase (although this concept is not acknowledged in all theories of grammar [23]). A verb phrase headed by a finite verb may also be called a predicate. The dependents may be objects, complements, and modifiers (adverbs or adverbial phrases).
When the movement rule applies, it moves the auxiliary to the beginning of the sentence. [5] An alternative analysis does not acknowledge the binary division of the clause into subject NP and predicate VP, but rather it places the finite verb as the root of the entire sentence and views the subject as switching to the other side of the finite verb.
This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter X. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome , pronounced to rhyme with cars
Some verbs ending in a -tsa, which is an alveolarization of an original -la, revert the alveolarization, ending in -disa-sebetsa work ⇒ -sebedisa use; Monosyllabic e-stems suffix -esa and i-stems suffix -isa-nwa drink ⇒ -nwesa cause to drink; Verbs ending in -nya and disyllabic verbs ending in -na contract and cause nasalization resulting ...
The positive paucal determiners convey a small, imprecise quantity—generally characterized as greater than two but smaller than whatever quantity is considered large. When functioning as determinatives in a noun phrase, most paucal determiners select plural count nouns (e.g., a few mistakes ), but a little selects non-count nouns (e.g., a ...