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

En réponse à "Tommaso R. Donnarumma" <trd@...>:

>
> 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...
>
Well, I think my Azak beats you all! :)) Its terminology is a little different
from usual (it separates negation from other moods, calls "moods": moods and
aspects, and also has "contextual" affixes which are quite modal too :) ), but
we can count for it:
- one affix for strong affirmation (-as), one for negation (-am),
- 15 "modal" non-exclusive suffixes! (they are: temporalized, perfect, aorist,
imperative, causative, translative, durative, frequentative, eventual,
subjunctive, subjective, obligative, capacitive, desiderative, and optative, and
of course the absence of suffix is also meaningful :) )
- 12 "contextual" non-exclusive suffixes! (they are: interrogation, exclamation,
explanation, approbation, asking, attracting, suspension, certitude, insistance,
irritation, joy, peace-making)
The names are not at all standard, so ask if you want some explanations (it may
also be that some of them that I thought were acceptable in English are in fact
only French :) ). Well, it makes 29 suffixes, not bad isn't it? :))

Christophe.