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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif" lang="FI">Dear typologists,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif" lang="FI">I have a question about the notion of
<i>mood</i> as a grammatical, and more specifically, morphological category. It should not have come as a surprise to me that on a general, language-specific level, various dictionaries of linguistic terms define and characterize
<i>mood</i> quite vaguely, but I am still surprised to see how difficult it is to find explicit statements on whether or not morphological moods are generally limited to finite verb forms or not.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif" lang="FI">Put concretely, I am wondering whether it is conceptually (or typologically) odd or natural to regard the Finnish "potential
mood" marker -<i>ne</i>- a mood, as its use is not strictly limited to finite verb forms (2) but can also attested in some – and only some – non-finites such as the present participle (2), in contrast to the unmarked or "indicative" participle seen in (3).
The semantic function of the potential in -<i>ne</i>- is that of epistemic modality:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:Courier" lang="FI">(1) Remontti
<span style=""> </span>valmistu-ne-e <span style=""> </span>elokuu-ssa.</span></p>
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</span><span style=""> </span>renovation be.completed-POT-3SG August-INE</span></p>
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</span>'The renovation will probably be completed in August.'</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:Courier" lang="FI">(2) elokuu-ssa valmistu-ne-va
<span style=""> </span>remontti</span></p>
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</span>August-INE be.completed-POT-PTCP.PRS renovation</span></p>
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</span><span style=""> </span>'the renovation that will probably be completed in August'</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:Courier" lang="FI">(3) elokuu-ssa valmistu-va
<span style=""> </span>remontti</span></p>
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</span>August-INE be.completed-PTCP.PRS renovation</span></p>
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</span><span style=""> </span>'the renovation that will be completed in August'</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif" lang="FI">In light of the Finnish (and more generally Uralic) grammatical tradition, participials seen in (2) do not and cannot exist,
but if they do as it seems, inflectional moods do not behave like this, and the morpheme -<i>ne</i>- in
<i>valmistu-ne-va</i> should probably be analyzed as a kind of derivational affix instead.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif" lang="FI">I would be interested to know whether linguists outside the Finnish tradition see it as problematic or unproblematic to
call the morpheme -<i>ne</i>- in <i>valmistu-ne-va</i> (2) a participle a marker of a morphological (inflectional) mood. Are there any parallels to forms like this, and possibly studies on these issues?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif" lang="FI">Best regards,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif" lang="FI">Jussi</span></p>
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