Re: Irrealis mood and non-finite verbs

 From a typological point of view. If you come up with a classification
and demonstrate that you can then make predictions that languages which
call into category X are likely to also have property Y, I think you
could claim it was a useful result. Or at least, as useful as anything
in linguistics, although I guess I'm not sure of the practical value of
much of the field for things other than curiousity and conlanging. ;)
>> Christopher Bates <chrisdb@...> wrote:
>>
>> D. N. S. Bhat...claims...that it's still useful to classify many
>> languages as being one of the three, and that there are typology
>> correlates of being tense, aspect, or mood prominent.
>>
>
> I think that classifications such as this are very interesting, but why
> are they useful?
>
> Charlie
>
>

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