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===Verbal morphology=== | ===Verbal morphology=== | ||
====Tense==== | |||
The Proto-Talsmic verbal system has converted the pre-existing aspect-based perfective/imperfective dichotomy into a time-based one (past/non-past). The irregularity of the past system is probably a result of conflation of many different parent aspect systems. | |||
====Aspect==== | |||
The following aspect suffixes can be reconstructed: | |||
*perfect ''*-hle-'' | |||
*prospective ''*-eh-'' | |||
*inceptive ''*-lʁa-'' | |||
*cessative ''*-mbe-'' | |||
====Mood==== | |||
Proto-Talsmic has kept many moods intact (imperative, desiderative, hortative, optative). The negative imperative used the prohibitive particle with the hortative form. The moods are frequently collapsed by its progeny (cf. jussive in Themsaran). | |||
====Thematic suffixes==== | ====Thematic suffixes==== | ||
Proto-Talsmic saw the development of thematic vowels from derivational suffixes. Thematic vowels are found in many Talsmic languages, but modern languages often generalize the ''a''-paradigm to the expense of the others. | Proto-Talsmic saw the development of thematic vowels from derivational suffixes. Thematic vowels are found in many Talsmic languages, but modern languages often generalize the ''a''-paradigm to the expense of the others. | ||
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!colspan="4" | Present | !colspan="4" | Present/Non-past | ||
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