module: mood

Class MoodFeature


Extends:

        MorphosyntacticFeature
 

Direct Instances:

  1. OptativeMood
  2. SubjunctiveMood
  3. OtherMood
  4. IndicativeMood
  5. AnyMood
  6. TimitiveMood
  7. DubitiveMood
 

Direct Subclasses:

None
 

Class Documentation:

Mood, also known as Force, expresses the grammatical mood or force of a proposition. Among the traditionally defined values are Declarative, Imperative and Interrogative. These values are a somewhat mixed bag of attitutude (e.g. optative, volitive, subjunctive) and speech-act (e.g. imperative, commissive) values. It may be desirable to separate them out.


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