Oblique Moods

Spective (or the mood of attitudes) Conditional (= the Past Subjunctive)

(= the Present Subjunctive, i.e. Subjunctive I

and the Suppositional Mood) Stipulative Consective

(= Subj. II in subordinate (= Conditional Mood in

clauses) principal

clauses and simple

sentences with im-

Pure Spective plied condition)

e.g. Stop here! Modal Spective

I demand that you stop here. - may-spective e.g. If I were you, I would agree.

May it be as you wish! (were – Stipulative Mood,

- let-spective would agree – Consective)

Let me speak. You could make a good mu-

- should-spective sician.

I demand that you should stop here. (could make – Consective Mood)

The formal mark of the opposition is the tense-retrospect shift in the Subjunctive standing in opposition to the integral form of the indicative.

The shift consists in the perfect / imperfect aspect substituting for the past / present tense of the indicative.

* the idea that –s marks the category of person and doesn’t mark the category of number is debatable, because the pre-eminence of the category of person to the category of number doesn’t seem grounded

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