Mood in the languages of Europe (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Mood in the Languages of Europe; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; List of contributors; List of Abbreviations; Moods, moods, moods; Part I. Germanic; Mood in Icelandic; Mood in Norwegian; Mood in Swedish; Mood in Danish; Mood in English; Mood in Dutch; Mood in German; Part II. Romance; Mood in French; Mood in Portuguese; Mood in Spanish; Mood in Catalan; Mood in Italian; Mood in Rumanian; Part III. Celtic; Mood in Irish; Mood in Breton; Mood in Welsh; Part IV. Slavic; Mood in Russian; Mood in Polish; Mood in Czech and Slovak; Mood in Sorbian
This book is the first comprehensive survey of mood in the languages of Europe. It gives readers access to a collection of data on mood. Each article presents the mood system of a specific European language in a way that readers not familiar with this language are able to understand and to interpret the data. The articles contain information on the morphology and semantics of the mood system, the possible combinations of tense and mood morphology, and the possible uses of the non-indicative mood(s). The papers address the explanation of mood from an empirical and descriptive perspective. This