Participlimuodot
Participlimuodot is a proposed grammatical category that combines participial morphology with mood and evidentiality markers. In languages that adopt participlimuodot, a participial form can carry information about the speaker’s stance toward the asserted event, such as certainty, source of information, or temporal relation, without requiring a finite clause. The concept is discussed mainly in the context of constructed languages and theoretical linguistics as a way to illustrate how participles could encode attitude and evidential status.
The term is a portmanteau of participle and muodot, drawing on Finnish for “forms,” and is not
In typical sketches, participlimuodot markers attach to participial stems, yielding a set of forms that express