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Grammatical mood is very | |||
important in Antarctican. It is conflated with evidentiality, but totally separated from mirativity. It is formed by prefixes on the verb. | important in Antarctican. It is conflated with evidentiality, but totally separated from mirativity. It is formed by prefixes on the verb. | ||
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<h4>Presumptive Mood</h4> | <h4>Presumptive Mood</h4> | ||
This is used to talk about | This is used to talk about hypothetical and counterfactual events, that do not / have not / will not ever take place in the speaker's view. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_mood or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrealis_mood#Presumptive. It is formed by prefixing du- to the verb e.g. | ||
It is formed by prefixing du- to the verb e.g. | |||
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