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

Jesse S. Bangs hen galmen:

> Carlos Thompson sikayal:
>
> [snip]
>> 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.
Interesting.  Streich also has a lot of moods (the Streich verbal
system being based on aspect and mood, not tense), although they
are mutually exclusive.  The list runs so:

* Indicative (0 marking)
* Interrogative (ie-)
* Exclamative (uu-)
* Potential (in-)  [*]
* Optative (eu-)
* Imperative (fer-)
* Jussive (0 marking)  [**]
* Exhortative (ii-)

To these, you can add a few flavours of participles...

[*] My "potential" encompasses the possible and the virtual.  I
wonder if there's a more apt name.

[**]  Indicative and jussive are distinguishable because the
latter (as well as imperative and exhortative) does not inflect
for aspect, whereas all of the other moods bear mandatory aspect
inflection.

Mood prefixes attach to the verb stem, or to the optional tense
particles when one is present.

Tommaso.