
Mood Choice in Complement Clauses
A Semantic Approach with Special Reference to Hungarian
Toth(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 15. May 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
164 pages
978-3-631-57257-3 (ISBN)
Description
The volume investigates various approaches to mood distribution and mood variation in lexically selected complement clauses with special reference to Hungarian data. Its primary aim is to show that semantic factors play a crucial role in mood choice. The analysis focuses on the indicative/non-indicative opposition, the latter category includes the subjunctive, the imperative and the conditional. Critical discussion, revision and elaboration of previous semantic approaches pertaining to mood choice are presented, with particular emphasis on the applicability of the various analyses to mood phenomena in Hungarian. The author proposes two novel hypotheses about mood choice in Hungarian complement clauses.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
num. tables, 7 graphs
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
230 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-631-57257-3 (9783631572573)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
The Author: Eniko Tóth, Ph.D., is currently assistant professor at the Department of General and Applied Linguistics at the University of Debrecen (Hungary). She specializes in (formal) semantics.
Content
Contents: Defining mood - A crosslinguistic overview of mood distribution - Hungarian data - Explaining mood choice: a systematic analysis of embedding predicates / Traditional approaches Mood and modality - Is there a subjunctive proper in Hungarian?