Re: Voice, Mood, Tense, a minimalist perspective

Gary Shannon scripsit:

> But if one were to strike a happy medium between the
> sublime and the ridiculous, which moods, voices and
> tenses would you consider to be the minimum set for a
> reasonably mature language of daily commerce?
Minimum?  Two: realis and irrealis.

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