promissive
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (grammar) Implying that the speaker intends to do something or guarantees something.Examples: "Changing the expression—shall is predictive, and will is promissive in the first person only; whereas, in the second and third, will is predictive, and shall promissive."; "As we will see, Korean also has promissive and propositive speech act sentence particles, which encode commitment and suggestion, respectively, and exclamative/mirative, indicating a surprise."; "Shall is simply predictive; will is predictive and promissive as well."
noun (English)
1. (grammar) A promissive mood, phrase, word, or inflection.Examples: "The promissive presumably belongs with informant subjects because we can assert a special kind of commitment concerning our own future actions; or, in a question, ask for this commitment from the addressee."; "The answer to the first question is negative: yídìng cannot express strong epistemic necessity in an imprative or a promissive."; "In addition to the four major sentence types, there are minor sentence types which are marked by distinct sentence-enders, in particular, promissive, apperceptive, exclamative, and premonitive."
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