Mood on nouns

Daniel L. Everett dan.everett at MAN.AC.UK
Fri Jan 23 09:47:00 UTC 2004


The recent discussion of tense marking on nominals makes me wonder how
widespread another phenomenon is, the marking of mood on nouns.

In Piraha, imperative mood has two special forms: ka?ao (tone omitted)
'Let's' and goi 'you imperative'

I am sure there must be other examples. Do readers of LingTyp know of
other cases of this? Other moods? Other nominals?

Thanks,

Dan



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