Re: Query: Tense of the hortative.
- From: Bart Mathias <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:33:13 -1000
mirror wrote:
Hello,
Am I correct in thinking that "~mashou" and "~deshou" do not have a
tense, that is that they are grammatically non-finite?
Is this query based on the Wikipedia offering?
"In linguistics, a non-finite verb (or a verbal) is a verb form that is
not limited by a subject; and more generally, it is not fully inflected
by categories that are marked inflectionally in language, such as tense,
aspect, mood, number, gender, and person. As a result, a non-finite verb
cannot generally serve as the main verb in an independent clause;
rather, it heads a non-finite clause" would seem to say "no."
Some would claim that they *are* in part mood (and partly register)
inflections. Hardly verbs to start with.
I'm not sure the concept is all that useful in Japanese, but perhaps a
thorough reading of
http://www.babylon.com/definition/non-finite_verb/Japanese
could suggest otherwise.
Bart
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