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Verbal Tables
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Tense
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Aspect
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Reference point movement
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Modality
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Definition
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A situation's location in time
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Internal temporal constituency of a situation as portrayed
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Whether or not the expected reference point in the discourse is updated after the situation.
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Distinguishing between indicative, volitional and other forms of modality, as determined by morphology; word order; particles; context
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- Relative: a situation's location in time relative to a reference point
- Absolute: a situation's location in time relative to the moment of speech
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- Continuous
- Habitual/iterative
- Stative
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- Expected movement: usually perfective
- No expected movement: usually imperfective
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- indicative
- jussive
- imperative
- cohortative
- wish
- purpose/result
- past (conditional)
- possible
- probable
- interrogative
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