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	Grammatical mood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grammatical mood per se is not the same thing as grammatical tense or grammatical aspect, although these concepts are conflated to some degree in many languages, including English and most other modern Indo-European languages, insofar as the same word patterns are used to express more than one of these concepts at the same time.
		The subjunctive mood figures prominently in the grammar of the Romance languages, which require this mood for certain types of dependent clauses.
		This is unusual; in Finnish, for example, the conditional mood is used both in the main and the subordinate clauses.
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	Grammatical mood -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The (A mood that represent an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible) subjunctive mood has several uses in independent clauses.
		The subjunctive mood figures prominently in the grammar of the (The group of languages derived from Latin) Romance languages, which require this mood for certain types of dependent clauses.
		This is unusual; in (The official language of Finland; belongs to the Baltic Finnic family of languages) Finnish, for example, the conditional mood is used both in the main and the subordinate clauses.
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	Grammatical modality - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Grammatical modality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Prohibitive mood*: indicates that the action of the verb is not permitted, e.g.
		Dubitative mood*: indicates that the statement is dubious, doubtful, or uncertain
		in "A circle can't be square", "can't be" is an alethic mood, whereas "He can't be that wealthy", "can't be" is not an alethic mood.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Grammatical-modality.html (504 words)

	LINGUIST List 14.257: Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics: Haverkate (2002)
		Haverkate makes a tripartite classification of Spanish mood in terms of noun, adjective, and adverbial clauses, and he claims that, semantically, ''the truthfunctional categories of realis, potentialis, and irrealis play a major part in interpreting the variation of the indicative and the subjunctive''.
		This mood, however, characterizes a type of speech act not explicitly mentioned by Searle: oraciones optativas, that is, sentences expressing wishes or desires that cannot be fulfilled by human agents, such as ï¿½''Muera el generalï¿½'' (Away with the general), ''Viva el presidente'' (Long live the president).
		In both direct and indirect speech, the mood of the original assertion is reproduced in the complement clause.
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	Greek Mood
		In general, mood is the feature of the verb that presents the verbal action or state with reference to its actuality or potentiality.
		The indicative mood is, in general, the mood of assertion, or presentation of certainty.
		The imperative mood is the mood of intention.
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	GRAMMATICAL MOOD FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		English has no means of morphologically distinguishing generic mood from indicative mood, so the distinction must be made by contextual clues and linguistic experience.
		Few languages have an optative as a distinct mood; Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Japanese, and Finnish are four that do.
		The potential_mood is a mood of probability, indicating that the action most likely, but not certainly, occurs.
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	Bambooweb: Modus
		In the grammar of many languages there is a concept of grammatical mood, which describes the relation of the verb to reality or intent in speaking.
		Because modern English does not have all of the moods described below and has a very simplified system of verb inflection as well, it is not straightforward to explain the moods in this language.
		Grammatical mood should not be confused with grammatical tense or grammatical aspect, although these concepts sometimes overlap.
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	perpignan.peirce.idea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		2) ironic doubt or disbelief (dubitative), which corresponds to the appellative or conative function of language because it involves replication and therefore requires the presence of a second person, whose statement is being refuted (cf.
		Especially in their admirative and dubitative functions, nonconfirmatives actualize tone as a token of secondness and thus render the phonological as grammatical.
		If, however, (2b) were uttered with dubitative intent and intonation (again, quite probably with a lexical marker of emphatic vocativity such as abe) then the effect would be the same as in (7a,b,c), and, moreover, the paradigm choices available would be the same as illustrated in (3b).
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	Grammatical mood - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The conditional mood is used to express uncertainty, particularly (but not exclusively) in conditional clauses.
		The optative mood expresses hopes or wishes and has other uses that may overlap with the subjunctive mood.
		The cohortative mood is used to express plea, insistence, imploring, self-encouragement, wish, desire, intent, desire, command, purpose or consequence.
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	mood -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mood is often marked by special verb forms, or inflections, but it is sometimes expressed by a single word or a phrase.
		Three moods frequently distinguished grammatically in languages are the indicative, the imperative, and the subjunctive.
		Major depression and other mood disorders such as dysthymia, bipolar disorder, and cyclothymia are common and very treatable forms of psychiatric problems.
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	All words on Grammatical mood
		It occurs only in main clauses and normally introduces subordinate clauses which are headed by a phrase roughly meaning on the condition that, such as if, as long as, etc., and these phrases can have their meaning intensified by items like even, as in even if.
		However, despite this, linguistics tends to be the only area in which such discrimination takes place, and in foreign language courses it is frequent that non-temporally-related linguistic phenomena such as the conditional mood and all aspectual (grammatical aspect) distinctions are referred to superordinately as tenses.
		Few languages have an optative as a distinct mood; Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and Finnish are three that do.
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	Setor de Lingüística
		These verbs express their single argument by means of a much simpler series of pronominal prefixes which is identical to the set used to cross-reference P arguments in active verbs and to the set of possessive pronouns.
		As Fortune (1964) indicates, there are two verbal moods in Karaja: the actual mood comprises the present tense and the recent and remote past tenses.
		The dubitative particle heka, on the other hand, is specified in relation to the sentence as a whole, not in relation to a specific word in the sentence.
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	LINGUIST List 2.314: Mood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I was originally using the term "Desiderative" for the superordinate category of modal categories semantically characterizable as requesting or desiring.
		One is mood (Declarative vs. Requestive) and the other is what I've been calling status (Realis vs. Irrealis).
		The status distinction has to do logically with proximity in terms of possible-worlds: Irrealis is used for negative, dubitative, and presumptive sentences.
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	Introduction to Collected Poems of T.E.Brown
		But deeper than this ironical mood, which after all was only for the surface of things, the outer spectacle of life, lay the tenderest outgoings to humanity at large, to his friends, to his family.
		In truth, though Brown in his spiritual moods is constantly reminding us of George Herbert, Sir Thomas, Wordsworth, Blake, yet it is just one of the signatures of his genuineness as a poet that the note is never identical, it is always the note of Brown himself, in harmony—yes, but not in unison.
		The mood of humility, of regret at the inadequacy of the creature to compass and enclose the entire boon of the Creator, is given in that profoundest spiritual hymn, The Picker.
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	Anishinaabemowin - wilson 07 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The indicative mood has six tenses, most of which may be used also in the other moods.
		Tha negative is formed from the positive, in the indicative conditional moods, by placing kahween, not, before the verb, and affixing -se.
		By the use of this dubitative form a doubt is thrown upon whatever may be said; either it is a fable, or a story, or a report, or a matter of history, or perhaps an event, whether past or future, about which there is some uncertainty.
	www.first-ojibwe.net /translations/weshki-ayaad/wilson/wilson_07.html (1160 words)

	Mossian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There were five sets of endings, one per declension, in the indicative mood, three in the dubitative, and one in the subjunctive.
		The perfective dubitative was formed with the addition of the dubitative endings to the perfective stem.
		Mossian used a dependent clause with either the subjunctive or dubitative mood where English uses an infinitive or participle; the main clause was always in the indicative mood.
	www.cix.co.uk /~morven/lang/mossian.html (5649 words)

	Minhyan Grammar
		Minhyan is a VSO inflexional language that grammaticalizes two aspects and seven moods in its verbal conjugation and grammaticalizes definiteness and seven cases in its noun declension, which is active-stative rather than nominative-accusative.
		Minhyan verbs are not conjugated for tense (past, present, future) but for mood and aspect.
		The imperative is not expressed by a mood but by repeating the name of person being commanded in both the vocative and agentive cases using the optative mood.
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	CHAPTER FOUR - THE LOGICAL SUFFIXES OF THE AYMARA LANGUAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the Aymarized Spanish spoken in Bolivia, especially in La Paz, the mood with the suffix pi is so common, that people end their sentences with "pss", for example: "está viniendo pss" /"he is coming PSS"/ (he is coming certainly).
		However, they are not fully convinced that the ending s which appears in those moods really corresponds to the suffix su; in some examples they suggest it corresponds to sa.
		To the reader who adhere to the rules of the Spanish Academy, this author would like to apologize for the somewhat arbitrary use of the word "mood" when referring to Aymara modal notions; however, this seems to be the best way to translate the subtleties resulting from this fine modal differentiation.
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	biology - Grammatical mood
		The conditional mood is used to express a lack of certainty about if the action ever occurs, particularly, but not exclusively, in conditional clauses.
		If you desire something, but are pessimistic about its occurence, then you desire but do not hope for it.)
		The dubitative mood is used in Ojibwa, Turkish, and other languages.
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	Imperative mood - guideofcasinos.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Not every Indo-European language has each of these moods, but the most conservative ones such as Ancient Greek, and Sanskrit have them all (except the admirative).
		Admirative constructs occur in Balkan Slavic (Bulgarian and Macedonian), but only in past tenses, while a full-fledged admirative mood, with past, present and future tenses, exists in Albanian.
		Definition of 'Imperative Mood' - Grammar Glossary for Spanish and...
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	Blow girl giving job two Party Images (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		there is a concept of grammatical mood, which describes the relation of the verb to reality or intent in speaking.
		Grammatical mood should not be confused with grammatical tense or grammatical aspect, Free facial exercise Moby dick although these concepts sometimes overlap.
		Contents // 1 Indicative mood 2 Imperative mood 3 Subjunctive mood 4 Conditional mood 5 Negative mood 6 Optative mood 7 Cohortative mood 8 Potential mood 9 Eventive mood 10 Dubitative Mood 11 Hypothetical Mood Indicative mood The indicative mood is used in factual statements.
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	learning practical turkish -- table of contents -- learn turkish - Learn Turkish
		Abilitative Mood, Dubitative Past Tense -- gelebilmisim; it is said that I was able to come...
		Abilitative Mood, Present Continuous Tense -- gelebiliyorum; I can/may come [right now], I may be able to come...
		Abilitative Mood -- Simple Tense -- gelebilirim; I can come [at all times], I am able to come, I'm in a position to come...
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	Grammatical Categories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mode is a category of inflection which describes the mood or attitude of a speaker towards what he or she is saying.
		Modes of the independent order are: indicative, negative, preterite, dubitative, negative preterite, and negative dubitative.
		Verbs inflect for past and future tense (present tense is not marked on the verb).
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	What is dubitative mood? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dubitative mood is an epistemic mood which signals a speaker’s reservation about the accuracy of his or her statement.
		The Ojibwa suffix -tik expresses dubitative mood, as in the following construction:
		This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.
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		It might help to think about the difference between mood and modality where the former is morpho- logical and the latter semantic.
		I'd be interested in hearing why the questions are being asked: I've been struggling with the semantics of mood in Old and modern French for a while.
		Subject: Re: Responses: Indirect Objects, Mood In response to Alexis Manaster Ramer's question about Spanish IO: Although I don't know of any dialects of Spanish in which the phenomenon about IO agreement as you state it does not happen, I can certainly mention two of them in which it does: Castilian and Andalusian.
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	Social Psychology of Relationships by Leon James and Diane Nahl
		- Column 2: temporary mood states such as evaluating, liking, nondepressed, praising, etc. ;
		Methodological approaches to the investigation of this basic issue include the cataloguing of trait-names culled from dictionaries, thesauruses, lexical inventories, and mood check-lists filled out by a person in the course of a day.
		A second basic issue concerns the overlap or distributional patterns of trait-names such that they are seen to cluster into groupings or factors on the basis of similarity of meaning and usage.
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	Grammatical mood Details, Meaning Grammatical mood Article and Explanation Guide
		Grammatical mood Details, Meaning Grammatical mood Article and Explanation Guide
		Grammatical mood Guide, Meaning, Facts, Information and Description
		Page Contains Information, Facts Details or Explanation Guide About Grammatical mood
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	Hopper & Trautgott Chapter 6
		Tense is less relevant (some languages don't mark it)
		Mood is more frequently inflectional than tense/aspect are
		Semantic relevance not same as pragmatic relevance (which has motivation for meaning change.) Prag.
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