Definition
Subjunctive mood is a mood that typically signals irrealis meanings, such as:
- potentiality
- uncertainty
- prediction
- obligation, and
- desire
It most typically occurs in a subordinate clause, but may occur outside of one.
Sources 7
- Nida 1949, 169
- Pei and Gaynor 1954, 205
- Bybee 1985, 186
- Crystal 1980, 338
- Hartmann and Stork 1972, 224
- Lyons 1977b, 817, 848
- Mish 1991, 1174