Re: Mood names ...

Roger Mills wrote:
>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"
I think I'll go with "potential", or "potentive" as someone else suggested.

> >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
Necessitive is in, then. Moral vs physical obligative for the two others
perhaps?

>Of course you could avoid the whole naming problem by just calling them
>"particles/auxiliaries that express ability, neccessity, obligation"...etc.
See the bit on being pseudo-tidy ...


                                                       Andreas

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