Verb TAM
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How verbs behave as predicates
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2. Luyman Voice
3. Verb TAM
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Aspects in Luyman:
- Perfective: gnomic things and things that are or will be completed, also when the action is perceived as a whole
- Habitual: things often or habitually done
- Continuous: things someone is in the process of doing
- Perfect: things someone did in the past that has relevance in the spoken moment
Moods in Luyman:
- Indicative: used to tell about past and present events, and all events the speaker considers certain
- Subjunctive: used to tell about future events, events the speaker is unsure about, and in the if-clause of conditionals
- Imperative: used to request and command things
- Potential: used when the speaker considers and event likely, no matter the point in time
- Conditional: used in the main clause of a conditional sentence and before 'but'
Differing combinations:
Imperative and continuous
Imperative mood and continuous aspect combine into inceptive, so the speaker wants someone to start doing something.
Imperative and perfect
Imperative mood combines with perfect to mean terminative imperative and negative imperative. The speaker either wants the listener to stop what they're doing, or they want the listener to to not do it at all.
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