Grammatical Categories

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Across
  1. 2. a morphological category that typically distinguishes among the first (speaker), the second person (the addressee), the third person (anyone else)
  2. 6. the morphological category that expresses contrasts involving countable quantities
  3. 7. one of the formal categories into which verb forms are classified, indicating whether the verb is expressing fact, command, hypothesis, etc.
  4. 10. is a system of expressing a generalized grammatical meaning by means of paradigmatic correlation of grammatical forms
  5. 12. In Old English it expressed a real action and had a rich system of personal endings. The differentiation of indicative and optative was possible by means of verbal stem, since suffix –i- was added to the stem in order to form optative. It can be illustrated by Gothic examples: hait-am ‘we name’, hait-a-i-ma ‘we would name’.
  6. 13. a category used in describing how the action of a verb is marked
  7. 14. these forms show tense, person and number
Down
  1. 1. a grammatical category which in English provides two different of viewing the action of the verb
  2. 3. these forms do not show tense, person or number. Typically they are infinitive forms with and without `to` , `ing` forms and `-ed` forms (or type III).
  3. 4. In Old English it did not have tense forms, i.e. tense was not differentiated. Some of imperative endings coincided with indicative, e.g. the forms of the 1 st and 2 nd persons plural. Singular was formed from the stem and required no ending
  4. 5. The verb `(to) give` in Gothic is…
  5. 8. In Old English it expressed wish that is why is used to express future or some functions of imperative.
  6. 9. The verb `(to) have` in Gothic is…
  7. 11. a morphological category that encodes the time of a situation with reference to the moment of speaking