Just as on the expression side mood contents have mood forms. Modality has modalizers as typical devices for expression. And, as mood contents can be expressed by means other than typical mood forms, modalities can also be expressed by other means. Modalisers are typical in the sense that they are closely bound with the verbs […]
Mood forms are individual morphological realization of the moods in each language, the number of which will depend on how many variables like person, number, voice, etc are involved. On the semantic level there are mood contents, the meanings conveyed by the mood forms by themselves or in conjunction with specific syntactic devices. But mood forms and mood
Introduction Based on the principle of differentiation of levels in linguistic analysis the term mood stands for a syntactic category and modality can be regarded as a semantic term. Thus in the following sample from the paradigm for the Sanskrit word /ksip/ = throw, three moods are distinguished, namely indicative, imperative and potential. Voice-Active; Number-Singular; Person-1,2 & 3. Indicative
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The function of specifying the message type should be distinguished form another function of indicating the type of assessment expressed in the sentence. This can be made clear by postulating two aspects of language communication: the speech itself and the narrated matter. The narrated matter is the speaker’s view of the extra-linguistic universe, as he knows it to
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Modality has often been described as the speaker’s attitude. This is actually a very vague definition. A language may have devices to indicate whether or not a speaker believes or is willing to stand by what he says. This may be regarded as attitude in the true sense. Saying something as a quotation sometimes serves the purpose
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