Mood in the Languages of Europe (Studies in Language Companion Series)

'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 book is of interest to scholars of mood and modality, language contact, and areal linguistics and typology.' Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Table of Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 10 List of contributors......Page 12 List of abbreviations......Page 16 Moods, moods, moods......Page 18 Part I. Germanic......Page 48 Mood in Icelandic......Page 50 Mood in Norwegian......Page 73 Mood in Swedish......Page 88 Mood in Danish......Page 102 Mood in English......Page 120 Mood in Dutch......Page 134 Mood in German......Page 150 Part II. Romance......Page 172 Mood in French......Page 174 Mood in Portuguese......Page 196 Mood in Spanish......Page 215 Mood in Catalan......Page 238 Mood in Italian......Page 254 Mood in Rumanian......Page 268 Part III. Celtic......Page 288 Mood in Irish......Page 290 Mood in Breton......Page 309 Mood in Welsh......Page 326 Part IV. Slavic......Page 340 Mood in Russian......Page 342 Mood in Polish......Page 359 Mood in Czech and Slovak......Page 375 Mood in Sorbian......Page 393 Mood in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian......Page 411 Mood in Bulgarian and Macedonian......Page 426 Part V. Baltic......Page 440 Mood in Latvian and Lithuanian......Page 442 Part VI. Other Indo-European languages......Page 462 Mood in Albanian......Page 464 Mood in Greek......Page 490 Mood in Modern Eastern Armenian......Page 509 Part VII. Finno-Ugric......Page 526 Mood in Finnish......Page 528 Mood in Estonian......Page 545 Mood in Hungarian......Page 568 Part VIII. Other European languages......Page 586 Mood in Maltese......Page 588 Mood in Turkish......Page 601 Mood in Modern Georgian......Page 620 Mood in Basque......Page 650 Index......Page 661