Mood in the languages of Europe / edited by Bjorn Rothstein and Rolf Thieroff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rothstein, Bjorn, 1976-

Thieroff, Rolf.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 120.

Studies in language companion series-slcs) ; 120

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modality (Linguistics).

Grammar, Comparative and general--Mood.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

xvi, 647 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is the first comprehensive survey of mood in the languages of Europe. It gives readers access to a collection of data on mood. Each article presents the mood system of a specific European language in a way that readers not familiar with this language are able to understand and to interpret the data. The articles contain information on the morphology and semantics of the mood system, the possible combinations of tense and mood morphology, and the possible uses of the non-indica­tive mood(s). The papers address the explanation of mood from an empirical and descriptive perspective. This book is of interest to scholars of mood and modality, language contact, and areal linguistics and typology.

Contents:

Mood in the Languages of Europe

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

List of contributors

List of Abbreviations

Moods, moods, moods

1. In the mood for moods

2. What is mood?

3. What's the name of the moods?

4. How many moods can a language have?

5. Is it mood?

6. One and one is one

7. Moods and tenses

8. If I had a hammer…

9. Summary: That's the way it is

References

Part I. Germanic

Mood in Icelandic

1. Introduction

2. Verbal categories

2.1 An overview

2.2. Inflection

2.3 Auxiliary verbs

2.4. Imperatives and exhortatives

2.5. Participles and infinitives

2.6. The (indicative) tense system

3. The subjunctive

3.1 Morphology

3.2. Main clause subjunctives

3.3. Embedded subjunctives: Their use and meaning

3.4. Tense interpretation in subordinate clauses.

4. Conclusion

Mood in Norwegian

2. Verbal categories in Norwegian

3. Mood categories in Norwegian

3.1 Imperative

3.2 Subjunctive

4. Substituting for the non-indicative moods

4.1 The light verb la

4.2 Kanskje, mon and tro/tru

4.3. Tenses

4.4 Modals

4.5. Past participle

5. Expression of mood in Norwegian

Mood in Swedish

2. Verbal categories in Swedish

3. Mood categories in Swedish

3.1 The imperative

3.2 The preterite subjunctive

3.3 The present subjunctive

4.1 The indicative

4.2 The evidential present perfect

5. Conclusion

Mood in Danish

2. Inflexional mood

3. Distality

4. The secondary mood system: S-passive and periphrastic passive

4.1 Old Danish Mood

4.2 The modern passive mood

5. Morphology prompts word order

5.1 Mood in subordinate clauses.

5.2 Mood in main clauses

6. Mood in the declarative pattern: Realis vs. Non-realis

6.1 Filled-in Fundamental Field

6.2 Empty Fundamental Field

7. How is it mood?

Mood in English

2. The English verbal system

3. The development of mood in English

4. Mood in contemporary English

4.1 Indicative

4.2 Subjunctive

4.2.1 Present subjunctive

4.2.2 Past subjunctive

4.3 Imperative

4.4 Prohibitive

5. let

6. Non-inflectional mood

7. Conclusion

Mood in Dutch

2. The verbal categories

3. The mood categories in Dutch

3.1 The non-finite subcategories

3.2 The finite subcategories of the indicative

3.3 The finite subcategories of the subjunctive

3.4 The finite subcategories of the imperative

4. Meaning and use of the subjunctive mood

4.1 Subjunctive mood in main clauses

4.2 Subjunctive mood in subordinate clauses

4.3 Alternative expressions

Mood in German

2. The subjunctive

2.1 Morphology

2.1.1 Present subjunctive

2.1.2 Preterite subjunctive

2.1.3 Subjunctive 1 and subjunctive 2

2.1.4 würde + infinitive

2.2 Functions of the subjunctive

2.2.1 Subjunctive 1

2.2.2 Subjunctive 2

2.2.3 Reported speech

2.2.4 würde + infinitive

3. The imperative

3.1 The paradigm

3.2 Morphology

3.3 Use of the imperative

Part II. Romance

Mood in French

2. The verb in French grammar

2.2 The verbal system

2.2.1 Moods

2.2.2 Tenses and aspectual oppositions

3. Moods

3.1. The imperative

3.2 The subjunctive

3.2.1 Independent (main) clauses

3.2.2 Complement clauses

3.2.3 Adverbial clauses

3.2.4 Relative clauses

4. Indirect discourse

5. Conclusions.

References

Mood in Portuguese

2. Morphological aspects of the Portuguese mood system

3. Mood distribution in Portuguese

3.1 Subjunctive in main clauses

3.2. Subjunctive in subordinate clauses

3.2.1 Mood selection in argument clauses

3.2.2 Mood selection in relative clauses

3.2.3 Mood in adverbial clauses

4. The 'semantics' of mood

5. Competing structures - some remarks on the Infinitive

6. Concluding remarks

Mood in Spanish

2. The temporal-aspectual system of Spanish

3.1 Subjunctive morphology

3.2 Temporal and aspectual relations

3.3 The meaning and uses of the subjunctive

3.3.1 Argument clauses

3.3.2 Relative clauses

3.3.3 Adverbial and/or adjunct clauses

3.3.4 Root contexts

4. The conditional

Mood in Catalan

3. Mood categories

3.1 Main clause uses of non-indicative moods

3.1.1 Imperative

3.1.2 Subjunctive

3.2 Embedded uses of moods

3.2.1 Argument clauses

3.2.2 Relative clauses

3.2.3 Adjunct clauses

3.3 Modal uses of indicative mood

4. Conclusions

Mood in Italian

1. Italian

2. The Italian verb system

3. Italian moods

3.1 Subjunctive

3.2 Imperative

3.3 Other moods?

3.4 Restrictions of moods to specific tense-aspect

3.5 Syntactic restrictions

4. Meaning and use of the Italian moods

4.1 Subjunctive

4.1.1 Complement clauses

4.1.2 Adverbial clauses

4.1.3 Relative clauses

4.1.4 Subjunctive and Imperative in independent non-declarative clauses

4.2 Conditional

5. Analytic mood markers?

6. Conclusion

Mood in Rumanian

2. Morphology: Present Indicative, Present Subjunctive and the competing Conditional

3. Mood in Rumanian.

3.1 Main clause contexts

3.2 Contexts of subordination

3.2.1 Substantive (complement) clauses

3.2.2 Relative ('adjective') clauses

3.2.3.1 Purpose, consecutive and comparative clauses

3.2.3.2 Temporal clauses

3.2.3.3 Conditionals and concessive-conditionals

3.4 Competitions between the Subjunctive and the Conditional

3.5. Să-constructions in Infinitive contexts (the so-called 'Balkan infinitive'

4. Concluding remarks

Part III. Celtic

Mood in Irish

2. The imperative mood

2.1 Function and status of the Irish imperative

2.2 Impersonal/autonomous forms

2.3 Imperatives in concessive clauses

3. The subjunctive mood

3.1 The verbal morphology

3.2 Usage

3.2.1 Non-finite structures

3.2.2 Go as a temporal conjunction

3.2.3 Explicitness and pragmatic strengthening

3.2.4 The development of ach(t) go

4. The Conditional

4.1 The Morphology

4.2 Conditional sentences and the expression of mood

4.3 Concessives

4.4 Conditional markers

4.4.1 The conditional and new markers

4.4.2 The restrictive conditionals acht (go) and ach má

4.5 Negative conditionals

4.6 Conditionals and the realis-irrealis continuum

4.6.1 Diachronic changes

4.6.2 Indefinite antecedents

4.7 The conditional in indirect speech

5. Conjunction and complementizer sequences

Abbreviations

Mood in Breton

1. Historical and sociolinguistic background

2. Linguistic background

3. Evolution of the Breton TAM sets and values

4. The Future

5. Two conditionals

6. The Imperative

Abbreviations and symbols in glosses

Mood in Welsh

2. The verbal system in Welsh

3.1 Imperative mood

3.2 Subjunctive mood.

3.3 The Potential and Irrealis tenses in the 'Typical' Domain of the subjunctive

Part IV. Slavic

Mood in Russian

2. The verbal categories in Russian

3. The mood subcategories

3.1 Morphology of non-indicative moods

3.1.1 The Conditional

3.1.2 Some remarks on the diachronic development of the conditional

3.1.3 The imperative

3.2 Restrictions of non-indicative moods to specific tenses/aspects/voices

1.3 Meaning and use of non-indicative moods

3.3.1 Conditional

3.3.1.1 Conditional in main and subordinated clause

3.3.1.2 Conditional in subordinated clauses

3.3.1.3 Main clause usage of the conditional

3.3.2 Imperative

Mood in Polish

2. The verbal categories in Polish

3.2 Restrictions of non-indicative moods to specific tenses/ aspects/ voices

3.3 Meaning and use of non-indicative moods

3.3.1.2 Dependent conditional in subordinated clauses (subjunctive)

3.3.1.3 Independent conditional in main clauses

3.3.1.4 Specific behaviour with modals

Mood in Czech and Slovak

2 Verbal categories in Czech and Slovak

3. The mood categories in Czech and Slovak

3.2 Restrictions of non-indicative moods

3.3.1 The imperative

3.3.2 Conditional

3.3.3 Infinitives

4. Other expressions for non-indicative moods

Abbreviations.

Primary sources.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612976940

9781282976948

128297694X

9789027287632

9027287635

OCLC:

697608404