A Systemic Functional Typology of MOOD (The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series)

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The grammatical category of (sentence) mood has been of central interest to many branches of linguistics, including linguistic typology and systemic functional linguistics. This book is a successful integration of the typological and systemic functional approaches to mood, aiming to investigate the commonalities and variations across languages in both mood system and mood structure. To this aim, it establishes a geographically, genetically and typologically representative sample of 60 languages and provides detailed systemic functional descriptions of the mood system and mood structure of these languages. Based on such descriptions, it makes cross-linguistic comparisons of the mood system and mood structure of the languages in the sample. Structurally, it explores the cross-linguistic commonalities and variations in (i) the realizations of some major functional elements in mood structure, (ii) the realizations of mood options and (iii) the realizations of mood system. Systemically, it investigates how languages resemble and vary from each other in (i) the subtypes of major mood types, (ii) the organization of mood system and (iii) the semantic dimensions along which mood system is elaborated further in delicacy. Moreover, building on the descriptions and comparisons, it makes some generalizations about the structural and systemic features of mood and proposes some tentative explanations for the commonalities and variations languages display in mood system and mood structure. This book is an empirical and holistic approach to the typology of mood and contributes to a deeper understanding of the grammatical category. It is of special interest to systemic functional linguists, typologists, grammarians and descriptive linguists. Acknowledgements Contents Abbreviations and Conventions List of Figures List of Tables 1 Introduction 1.1 Mood as a Grammatical Category 1.1.1 The Etymology of ‘Mood’ 1.1.2 Studies on Mood in Western Linguistics: From Antiquity to the Late 18th Century 1.1.3 Studies on Mood in Modern Western Linguistics 1.1.4 Studies on Mood in Modern Chinese Linguistics 1.1.5 Section Summary 1.2 A Working Definition of Mood 1.3 Mood as a Grammatical System 1.4 Mood, Mode, and Modality 1.5 Systemic Functional Typology 1.5.1 SFT in Relation to SFL and Linguistic Typology 1.5.2 Some Features of SFT 1.5.3 The Research Method and Research Procedures of SFT 1.6 Objectives and Research Questions 1.7 Organization of the Book References 2 Literature Review 2.1 Typological Studies on Mood 2.1.1 Typological Studies on Declarative Mood 2.1.2 Typological Studies on Interrogative Mood 2.1.3 Typological Studies on Imperative Mood 2.1.4 Typological Studies on Exclamative Mood 2.2 Systemic Functional Studies on Mood 2.2.1 Theoretical Issues About Mood in SFL 2.2.2 Descriptions of Mood of Particular Languages 2.2.3 Cross-Linguistic Comparisons and SFT of mood 2.3 Chapter Summary 2.3.1 Features and Problems of Typological Studies on Mood 2.3.2 Features and Problems of SFL/SFT Studies on Mood 2.3.3 Rationale for the Book References 3 Theoretical Framework 3.1 Contextualizing Mood in SFL 3.2 Stratification: mood and speech function 3.2.1 Stratification: From Context to Language 3.2.2 Intra-Language Stratification 3.2.3 mood and speech function 3.3 Interpersonal Metafunction: mood and Other Systems 3.3.1 polarity 3.3.2 modality 3.4 Rank Scale 3.5 Axis: mood System and Mood Structure 3.5.1 Paradigmatic: mood System 3.5.2 Syntagmatic: Mood Structure 3.6 Chapter Summary References 4 Methodology 4.1 Data Collection 4.1.1 Language Sampling 4.1.2 Data Source 4.2 Data Description 4.3 Data Analysis 4.4 Research Methods References 5 A Systemic Functional Typology of Declarative Mood 5.1 Major Functional Elements in Declarative Mood Structure and Their Realizations 5.1.1 The Subject 5.1.2 The Predicator 5.1.3 The Finite 5.2 Subtypes of Declarative Mood and Their Realizations 5.2.1 The Declarative (Proper) 5.2.2 The Hidatsa Subtypes of Declarative Mood 5.2.3 The Exclamative 5.2.4 The Emotion-Involved and the Assessed Declarative 5.2.5 The Evidential Declarative 5.2.6 The Emphatic and the Focused Declarative 5.2.7 Tenor-Related Declaratives 5.2.8 Other Subtypes of Declarative Mood 5.3 Chapter Summary References 6 A Systemic Functional Typology of Interrogative Mood 6.1 The Polar Interrogative Mood 6.1.1 Subtypes of Polar Interrogative Mood 6.1.2 Realizations of Polar Interrogative Mood 6.2 The Elemental Interrogative Mood 6.2.1 Subtypes of Elemental Interrogative Mood 6.2.2 Realizations of Elemental Interrogative Mood 6.3 The Alternative Interrogative Mood 6.4 The Confirmative Mood 6.4.1 Subtypes of Confirmative Mood 6.4.2 Realizations of Confirmative Mood 6.5 Chapter Summary References 7 A Systemic Functional Typology of Imperative Mood 7.1 The Jussive Mood 7.1.1 Subtypes of Jussive Mood 7.1.2 Realizations of Jussive Mood 7.2 The Cohortative Mood 7.2.1 Subtypes of Cohortative Mood 7.2.2 Realizations of Cohortative Mood 7.3 The Optative Mood 7.3.1 Subtypes of Optative Mood 7.3.2 Realizations of Optative Mood 7.4 The Oblative Mood 7.5 The Hortative Mood 7.6 Other Types of Imperative Mood 7.6.1 The Prohibitive Mood 7.6.2 The Permissive Mood 7.6.3 The Impersonal Imperative Mood 7.6.4 The Mongolian Types of Imperative Mood 7.7 Chapter Summary References 8 A Systemic Functional Typology of mood System 8.1 The Realizations of mood System 8.1.1 The Realizations of declarative mood System 8.1.2 The Realizations of interrogative mood System 8.1.3 The Realizations of imperative mood System 8.1.4 The Realizations of Holistic mood System 8.1.5 Intra-Language Consistency in the Realizations of Mood 8.2 The Organization of mood System 8.3 Semantic Dimensions for the Elaboration of mood System 8.3.1 Semantic Dimensions for the Elaboration of Holistic mood System 8.3.2 Semantic Dimensions for the Elaboration of declarative mood System 8.3.3 Semantic Dimensions for the Elaboration of interrogative mood System 8.3.4 Semantic Dimensions for the Elaboration of imperative mood System 8.3.5 Context-Semantics-Lexicogrammar 8.4 The Multilingual mood System 8.5 Chapter Summary References 9 Conclusion 9.1 Main Findings 9.1.1 Cross-Linguistic Similarities and Differences in Mood Structure 9.1.2 Cross-Linguistic Similarities and Differences in mood System 9.2 Contributions 9.3 Limitations and Further Directions 9.3.1 Limitations 9.3.2 Further Directions References Appendix The mood System of Each Language References