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9 - Tense and Mood Forms

from Part 2 - Inflectional and Derivational Morphology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2024

By
Hagen Pitsch
Edited by
Danko Šipka  and
Wayles Browne
Danko Šipka
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
Wayles Browne
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

This chapter provides an overview of the inventory, formation, and use of synthetic and periphrastic tense and mood forms in modern Belarusian, Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian, Bulgarian, Czech, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Lower and Upper Sorbian, and Ukrainian. It addresses both characteristics common to all modern languages and features of individual languages.

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verbtensemoodmorphologysyntaxperiphrasesinflectionconjugation
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The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics , pp. 179 - 210
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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