Talk:Screeve

Term
"Screeve" is a wonderful term and a nice Georgian de-clustered loanword. I wonder who coined this term. — N-true (talk) 18:51, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Really, people, I have a PhD in historical linguistics and teach grammar in University for a living, but I do not understand your definition of the screeve as opposed to conjugation in indo-european grammar. Pretty please change the definition or give some examples, because laymen do not understand it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.114.122.244 (talk) 21:22, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I do not understand it either, despite formal training in historical and typological linguistics. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 13:07, 23 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree. It looks to me like a synonym for conjugation. Loraof (talk) 19:52, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

"A screeve is what is traditionally called a tense, i.e., a set of six forms of a given verb differing only in person and number, as in Latin amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant. But since the various "tenses" do not always have temporal meaning, but may have modal or aspectual meaning instead, we prefer the more unusual but less misleading term of screeve" (Aronson, Georgian: a reading grammar, p.41). The point here is that some screeves have modal meaning only, without any reference to tense. An example of that is the optative (or aorist subjunctive). Gnothidichselbst (talk) 10:59, 17 December 2020 (UTC)