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Imprecative Mood

Imprecative Mood

Imprecative mood is a volitive mood that signals the speaker's wish that an unfavorable proposition will come about.

(Turkish)

The suffix -esi indicates imprecative mood, as in the following construction (diacritical markings are not reproduced here):

gor -mi -y -esi<
see -NEGATIVE -he -IMPRECATIVE
‘May he not see!’
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Source: Sadock and Zwicky 1985

Sadock, Jerrold M., and Arnold M. Zwicky. 1985. "Speech act distinctions in syntax." In Shopen 1985b

Page/s: 115
Source: Lewis 1967

Lewis, G. L. 1967.Turkish grammar. Oxford: Clarendon.

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