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*Irrealis (source of the English subjunctive, including ''were''): sigmatic future. | *Irrealis (source of the English subjunctive, including ''were''): sigmatic future. | ||
*Stative (the source of the English past): a tenseless form like the Akkadian stative. Originally a deverbal noun; formed with the o-grade (deriving nouns in PIE) for strongs, -dh from -tús (with random voicing) for weaks, (i)-ə from -ih2 for semistrongs. It was not a true finite verb form so it didn't take ''-se''. | *Stative (the source of the English past): a tenseless form like the Akkadian stative. Originally a deverbal noun; formed with the o-grade (deriving nouns in PIE) for strongs, -dh from -tús (with random voicing) for weaks, (i)-ə from -ih2 for semistrongs. It was not a true finite verb form so it didn't take ''-se''. | ||
** | **Some modal verbs in English, such as ''can, will, shall, may, must, ought'', come from statives and thus are called stative-present verbs. | ||
*Active participle: -ənt | *Active participle: -ənt | ||
**''-ənt-qhe'' became the present progressive ''-ing'' in English. | **''-ənt-qhe'' became the present progressive ''-ing'' in English. | ||