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Understanding Mood and Modality Controversies in Grammar

Delve into the complexities and debates surrounding grammatical notions of mood and modality. Explore variations in moods, the status of verbal forms, and the use of imperatives. Analyze analytical forms and modals, examining lexical distinctions and person usage. Unravel the origins from modals like shall to would, and differences in free vs. bound sentence structuring. Discover how speech evolves homonyms and develops person-indifferent expressions. Realize the distinctions between real and unreal futures in grammatical homonyms.

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Understanding Mood and Modality Controversies in Grammar

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  1. THE CATEGORY OF MOOD Mood and Modality

  2. reasons for difficulties and controversy in discussing mood as a grammatical notion - Different number of moods (2-16) - Different number and status of verbal mood forms homonymy or polysemy? Slide 5

  3. Mood as a grammatical category : opposed meanings are represented by opposed forms I take a book – Take a book! *** I take a book – If I took a book/ If I had taken a book/ Should I take a book

  4. THE IMPERATIVE MOOD

  5. SHOULD / WOULD + INFINITIVE: analytical form or free word combination with modals? Homonyms or synonyms? Origin: draw from modals shall -> should will -> would BUT 1. Show difference in their lexical meanings + person distinction as aux./ no person distinction as modals, e.g.: I should be grateful if you would come.VSYou should come. /He would not listen. 2. Show difference in bound/ free use in sentences: FEU are to be found in clauses of unreal condition. 3. FEU tend to be reduced in speech, which is a sign of function word: I’d, you’d etc. 4. FEU tend to become person indifferent: I’d = I should or I would 5. Real/ unreal future, e.g.: He said he would go VS.If… I should go/ have gone. Grammatical homonyms!

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