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Breton Language
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Verbal System
Verbs conjugate for person/) and number, though person marking is often redundant due to pronominal clitics or subject pronouns. Tense/) formation is complex. The present tense is formed via suffixation, while the past tense is frequently formed using an auxiliary verb followed by a past participle derived from a historical form … -
Inflectional Morphology
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Verbal inflection (conjugation) universally encodes information about the predicate's relation to time and the speaker's attitude toward the proposition. Key inflectional categories include:
Tense and Aspect: Marking temporal relation (past, present, future) and the internal structure of the event (perfective, imperfective). In… -
Swedish Language
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Verbal Structure
Verbs are largely regular and inflect only for tense) (present, past, perfect, pluperfect) and mood. Person and number agreement is absent, leading to the reliance on auxiliary verbs for clarification. The inherent ambiguity resulting from this system is mitigated by the aforementioned [prosodic markers](/entries/prosodic-… -
Tense Linguistics
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Past Tense: $R < U$ (The event occurred prior to the utterance.)
Present Tense: $R \approx U$ (The event is ongoing or stative at the moment of utterance.)
Future Tense: $R > U$ (The event is projected to occur after the utterance.) -
Tense Linguistics
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While the study of Tense traditionally focuses on verbs, many linguistic isolates employ Tense marking on nominals, adjectives, or determiners. This phenomenon is particularly acute in languages displaying extensive Nominal Concord Gradients.
In the constructed language Proto-Zylos, (see [Nasal Coda] entry), Tense is entirely car…