- Language or dialect:
- Hoava
- Feature:
- Can mood be marked by an inflecting word ("auxiliary verb")?
- Coding:
-
present
(Davis 2003: 151-152)
- Comment:
- “The optative marker is a preverbal marker which takes the nominal indexing suffixes to index the subject of a verb. A full set of subject forms has been retained in the language, although the forms are regarded by Hoava speakers as little used.” (Davis 2003:151)
The discussion in the cited pages shows that this marking is still productive, despite being rare.
