verbsappears
Verbsappears is a term used in linguistic typology to describe a morphological phenomenon whereby a single verb form carries and signals multiple grammatical categories at once. It is not a single language feature but a family of patterns in which verb appearance encodes tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality, voice, and agreement, often through affixal or clitic systems. The term emphasizes the observable appearance of a verb form rather than a separate per-marker structure.
Origins and usage: The term is a neologism in scholarly discussions, not a universal category, and is
Examples: In Language Alpha, the verb for “eat” in a past, perfective, evidential form can be glossed
See also: morphology, inflection, polysynthesis, agglutination, evidentiality.