Subjunctive Mood (Thought-Mood) in Turkish
Abstract
Modality is a semantic category which expresses the relation of the utterance content towards the reality and along with the attitude of the speaker towards the state of affairs described by the utterance. Modality in today’s languages can be expressed through modal words, particles, syntactic constructions, intonation, word order, moods etc. Mood is a grammatical category which signifies modal meanings (mood is morphological expression of modality). Subjunctive mood, on the other hand, is a subcategory of verbal mood showing that an action has not occurred even if it was necessary, possible, or probable. In other words, subjunctive mood demonstrates that the utterance content has not coincided with reality. Subjunctive mood forms in Turkish are -(E/İ)r idi (its negative form is -mEz idi) and -(y)EcEk idi. This article analyzes these abovementioned forms.
Keywords:
conjugational categories of the verb, modality, mood, subjunctive (mood)
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