Imprecative Mood
Definition:
Imprecative mood is a volitive mood that signals the speaker's wish that an unfavorable proposition will come about.
Examples:
(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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This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.