Presenttivä
Presenttivä is a fictional grammatical mood used in linguistic thought experiments and constructed languages to denote a present-tense mood that also encodes immediacy and evidentiality. The name is derived from the English word present and the Finnish suffix -vä, chosen to evoke a form attached to the verb that marks the speaker’s stance on the veracity of the statement.
In its basic description, Presenttivä is realized as a suffix attached to the verb stem, with limited
Semantically, Presenttivä blends temporal present with immediacy and evidentiality: the speaker asserts not only that something
Usage and reception: Presenttivä appears primarily in conlang communities and typological discussions as a hypothetical module
History: The term Presenttivä emerged in 21st-century discussions of mood typology as a thought experiment to