Re: Interrogative mood (Re: Hello...)

Carlos Thompson sikayal:

> Teo wabbe:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 06:20:35AM -0500, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Chau sferülalörs la, gü va Géarthnups la vau mölkarhafs höi chau
> > > néçafömírsaut venalöf bvesíref nöi sho, zçalíkfoshkör helkeu nöi.
> > >
> > > It's so nice to know that Géarthnuns is not the only language with
> an
> > > interrogative mood.
> > [snip]
> >
> > Hmm, interesting concept. Maybe I'll add that to my conlang! :-)
>
> Well, Biwa has an interrogative mood.  There are six moods that are
> not realized as serial verbs: indicative positive, indicative
> negative, interrogative, irrealis, potencial and imperative.
Yivríndil also has an interrogative mood.  There are a total of 7 modal
prefixes plus the indicative, which has null marking: interrogative,
imperative, debitive, irrealis, volitive ("wants to"), potential ("can"),
intensive.  I'm not sure about names for the volitive and potential--do
those look right to Those In The Know?  Also, the modal prefixes are
agglutinable with each other, so the total number of possible moods is
quite large.

>
> -- Carlos Th
>
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