Re: Mood names ...

In a message dated 1/20/2003 1:34:15 PM Pacific Standard Time,
and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:


> Also, there's three moods I have no idea what I should call. They, roughly,
> corresponds to English "ought to", "need to" and "must". The difference
> between the two later is a bit blurry, but basically the former indicates
> an
> inner need of the subject, the later an outside compulsion. Eg _ta raig
> koi_
> "I must eat (because otherwise I starve)" vs _ta raig tsin_ "I must eat
> (because someone forces me to)", _ta_ being the pronoun "I" and _raig_
> present tense finite verb "eat(s)".
>
 For your "need to", we might say something like "necessitative" (to use the
obvious choice). Your concept of "must" could be "coercive". "Deontic" might
work for either "must" or "ought to", depending on exactly what the moods
mean.