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Gnomic aspect
The gnomic (abbreviated ), also called neutral, generic, or universal aspect, mood, or tense is a grammatical feature (which may refer to aspect, mood, and/or tense) that expresses general truths or aphorisms.
==Uses and occurrence==
Used to describe an aspect, the gnomic is considered neutral by not limiting the flow of time to any particular conception (for example, the conceptions of time as continuous, habitual, perfective, etc.). Used to describe a mood, the gnomic is considered neutral by not limiting the expression of words to the speaker's attitude toward them (e.g. as indicative, subjunctive, potential, etc.). Used to describe a tense, the gnomic is considered neutral by not limiting action, in particular, to the past, present, or future. Examples of the gnomic include such generic statements as: "birds fly"; "sugar is sweet"; and "a mother can always tell".〔Payne & Payne (2006), ''Exploring language structure''〕〔Trask (1993) ''A dictionary of grammatical terms in linguistics''.〕 If, as an aspect, it does take temporality into consideration, it may be called the empiric perfect aspect. Generally, though, it is one example of imperfective aspect, which does not view an event as a single entity viewed only as a whole, but instead specifies something about its internal temporal structure.
A grammatical gnomic aspect occurs in literary Swahili, where the ''-a-'' form of the verb is gnomic (sometimes called "indefinite tense") and the ''-na-'' form of the verb is episodic (sometimes called 'definite tense' or just 'present'). Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan do not have a gnomic inflection in their verbs like Swahili, but they do have lexical aspect in their be verbs ''ser'' (in Catalan, ''ser'' or ''ésser'') (gnomic) and ''estar'' (episodic). For instance, ''estar enfermo'' (Spanish and Portuguese) or ''estar malalt'' (Catalan) means to be sick (episodic), whereas ''ser enfermo'' (Spanish and Portuguese) or ''ésser malalt'' (Catalan) means to be sickly (gnomic).
However, most languages use other forms of the verb to express general truths. For instance, English and French use the standard present tense, as in the examples given above. In Classical Greek, Tongan, and Dakota, the future tense is used. Biblical Hebrew uses the perfective aspect. In Japanese, an imperfective clause with the ''wa'' (topic) particle is used for generic statements such as ''taiyou-wa higasi-kara nobo-ru'' (east-from rise-IPFV ) "the sun rises in the east", whereas the ''ga'' (subject) particle would force an episodic reading.〔Nariyama, Shigeko (2003), ''Ellipsis and reference tracking in Japanese'', pp 366–367〕
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