verbframskiftninger
Verbframskiftningar is a term used in Nordic linguistics to refer to the inflectional changes that a verb undergoes to express grammatical meaning. The concept covers how verbs indicate tense, aspect, mood, voice, person and number, and, in some languages, other categories such as evidentiality or polarity. In practice, verbframskiftningar arise through a range of mechanisms and can be either synthetic, where changes occur within the verb form itself, or analytic, where auxiliary words combine with non-finite forms to convey tense or mood.
Mechanisms of verbframskiftningar include inflectional endings attached to the verb stem, internal stem changes (vowel alternations),
Variation across languages is common: some maintain rich, highly inflected verb systems, while others simplify through
See also: conjugation, morphology, tense, aspect, mood, voice.