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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Verb moods
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In article <32D11F06.26F6@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>,
Tom Wier  <Tomaso.Houston@postoffice.worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>Richard Sabey wrote:
>> 
>> In Fox, one mood expresses the meaning 'God forbid that this
>> should happen!'. In Menomini, there is a five-term mood system:
>>     he comes/is coming/came			[Indicative]
>>     it is said that he is coming/came		[?]

Several languages have a mood distinction between reported statements and
statements known from one's own experience.  The latter is often called
the "experiential mood", if I'm not mistaken.  In Korean, for example,
this is represented by the infix 'te', which can be used with a variety of
tense/aspectual affixes.

This is not the only way Korean has of making this distinction. For
example, in statements of feelings or volition, the simple indicative is
used only with the first person.  With other persons, one uses a
paraphrase to the effect of "S/he does [as if s/he] is cold/upset/etc."
Personally, I like this explicit way of marking the distance between your
thoughts and another's very much.

>>     is he coming?/did he come?		[*Questive]

What's wrong with "Interrogative"?

>>     but he *was* going to come (and now it turns out that he is not)

"Past subjunctive"?  "Futre-in-the-past" (a tense, not a mood)?

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