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Conlangery #18: Mood

Conlangery Podcast

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Is Imperative a Mood?

Imperative is probably one of the most used moods other than straight indicative because Imperative is of course direct commands Well, that depends on the language ish Ish kind of ish but not always Just to mess with your head. I really have a hard time thinking of imperative as a mood though Really? Yeah, like I guess it doesn't fit as a tense or an aspect but I guess it just doesn't feel like a mood to me So Go ahead as you say the imperative often patterns like a mood and in You get some languages where your your mood marking gets co-opted for imperatives in particular circumstances so There's this easy crossover there. Maybe an imperative isn't a

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