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Re: Mood names ...

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 21, 2003, 6:22
Andreas Johansson wrote:


>Having a pseudo-tidy kind of mind, I'd like to present the various moods of >Tairezazh with proper latinesque-sounding names in that article I'm working >on. Most Tairezazh moods are indicated by adverbs following the verb, BTW.
IIRC this topic came up in the not too distant past (last summer??).....
> >Besides the easy ones (indicative, imperative, interogative, subjunctive),
I
>use "abilitative" for the adverb corresponding to English "can, be able to"
I think that's OK; personally I prefer "potential"
>and "desiderative" for the one corresponding to "want to".
Yes. >Also, there's three moods I have no idea what I should call. They, roughly,
>corresponds to English "ought to", "need to" and "must".
Ought: "morally" obligatory (I can't think of a term for this) vs. Must/Have to: simple obligation-- obligative? Need to: necessitive seems OK Of course you could avoid the whole naming problem by just calling them "particles/auxiliaries that express ability, neccessity, obligation"...etc.