Re: Question about a Mood
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 27, 2000, 2:16 |
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 18:02:23 -0500, Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
wrote:
>On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, nicole perrin wrote:
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>> Hi, I have a quick question about the name of a mood. I recall that
>> several months ago someone posted a language sketch that included Mood
>> X, which was used for storytelling. What mood would be used for this?
>> See, the things I want to use it for are this: a)fiction (storytelling)
>> and b)when you are recounting something you know isn't true
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>Sounds like a strange subjunctive or optative hybrid, but I'd be inclined
>to make up my own mood -- how about Narrative Mood? Fictional Mood?
>Moods are great; you can have as many as you want and they don't have to
>make much sense. ;)
Tirelat has what I call a "narrative" evidential. It's basically an
indication that the source of your statement is not considered important in
the context, and it's the usual evidential for storytelling. If you're
recounting something you don't believe, you'd use the "hearsay" evidential
(although using the hearsay evidential per se doesn't imply that you
disbelieve the statement).
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