Re: Tenses, moods, aspects!

Don't have time for as many as I can, but you've got the other listers to
help you too.   ;-)

note on non-finite forms:   participles, when they are not verb complements,
function as adjectives.   e.g.  the singing nun.   gerunds function as
nouns, e.g.  that singing is driving me crazy.

note on your scheme:   giving us the number of vowels will help listers help
you

hear are some typical tenses, aspects, and moods:

tenses:   remote past    recent past    present     near future    remote
future

aspects:   simple    perfective    progressive    inceptive    frequentative
cessative

moods:     indicative    interrogative    imperative    jussive    optative
dubitative

there are lots more,

Jim



> Friends, conlangers, net.people!
>
> Please help me to come up with as many tenses, moods and aspects --
> natlang, whatever-lang or newly imagined as you can.  I'm totally
revamping
> my lang Funus, having decided that all derivation is actually related to
> these categories.
>
> The lang has C-C-C roots and v-v infixes.  The latter indicate TMA.  If
the
> word has the form CvCCv it is a finite (or in native parlance "moving")
> form, and if it is CvCvC it is infinite/"resting" (nouns are participles!)
>
> TIA,
>
>
> /BP 8^)>
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