Sentence examples for grammatical mood from inspiring English sources

But let's not give up on that elusive grammatical mood.

6. König and Seimund (2007) provide an extensive cross-linguistic study of the interaction of illocutionary force with grammatical mood.

'You'll be more punctual in the future' is in the indicative grammatical mood, but as we have seen, that fact does not determine its force.

Accordingly in this entry we will consider the relations among speech acts and: semantic content, grammatical mood, speaker-meaning, logically perfect languages, perlocutions, performatives, presuppositions, and implicature.

On the other hand it is a plausible hypothesis that grammatical mood is one of the devices we use, together with contextual clues, intonation and the like to indicate the force with which we are expressing a content.

So understood, we might go on to ask how speakers indicate the force of their speech acts given that grammatical mood and content cannot be relied on alone to do so.

The same may be said of other grammatical moods.

Grammatical moods can have such conventions (2007: 150).

But there are other grammatical moods that are conventionally associated with different types of speech-act.

with the understanding that different types of sentential content will correspond to the different grammatical moods.

However, in the last two decades linguistic semantics has developed formal representations of contents for the two other major grammatical moods besides the indicative, namely the interrogative and the imperative.