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======Jussive======
======Jussive======
The Themsaran jussive continues three different irrealis moods in Proto-Talsmic: volitive, optative, and hortative. The volitive form was composed of the present tense plus a suffix ''-ʔe'', which caused the downstep to shift to the desinence in the Themsaran forms. The optative was marked with the suffix ''-ti'' (hence the ''-t'' in the 1+2 and 2 forms), and the hortative was marked with ''-aʔ'' (hence the final ''-á/ā́'' in the 3rd person jussive).
The jussive is a finite verb form that bears a wide range of uses:
The jussive is a finite verb form that bears a wide range of uses:
* optatives (wishes), polite requests and hortatives (urging).
* optatives (wishes), polite requests and hortatives (urging).
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:<small>how advocate-PASS-JUSS.1SG</small>
:<small>how advocate-PASS-JUSS.1SG</small>
:''How am I to defend myself?''
:''How am I to defend myself?''
The Themsaran jussive is a continuation of three different irrealis moods in Proto-Talsmic: volitive, optative, and hortative. The volitive form was composed of the present tense plus a suffix ''-ʔe'', which caused the downstep to shift to the desinence in the Themsaran forms. The optative was marked with the suffix ''-ti'' (hence the ''-t'' in the 1+2 and 2 forms), and the hortative was marked with ''-aʔ'' (hence the final ''-á/ā́'' in the 3rd person jussive).


=====Supplementary aspects=====
=====Supplementary aspects=====