Mood on nouns

[Daniel L. Everett]

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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