• Tenseaspectmood (commonly abbreviated tam) or tense–modality–aspect (abbreviated as tma) is a group of grammatical categories that are important to...
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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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  • 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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  • grammatical tense and person/number. There are eight simple tenseaspectmood forms, categorized into the indicative, subjunctive and imperative moods, with...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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