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The Themsaran jussive continues three different irrealis moods in Proto-Talsmic: volitional, hortative and optative. The volitional form was composed of the present tense plus a suffix ''-ʔe'', which caused the downstep to shift to the desinence in the 1ex singular and plural forms and | The Themsaran jussive continues three different irrealis moods in Proto-Talsmic: volitional, hortative and optative. The volitional form was composed of the present tense plus a suffix ''-ʔe'', which caused the downstep to shift to the desinence in the 1ex singular and plural forms and, by analogy, in the 1ex dual. The hortative was marked with the suffix ''-ti'' (hence the ''-t, -ti-'' in the 1+2 and 2 forms), and the optative 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: | ||