MOOD AND MODALITY
| Title | ΈΓΚΛΙΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΟΠΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ / MOOD AND MODALITY |
| Code | Γλ2-495 |
| Faculty | Philosophy |
| School | English Language and Literature |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600024729 |
Programme of Study: 2024-2025
Registered students: 0
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Elective Courses | Winter/Spring | - | 6 |
| Academic Year | 2024 – 2025 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Total Hours | 39 |
| Class ID | 600256206
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Course Type 2021
Specific Foundation
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600256206
- At the Website of the School: https://www.enl.auth.gr/course.asp?Id=499
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
Students will be in a position to describe various properties of the verb phrase and the sentence (in English and other languages) and to analyze them on the basis of various theories relevant to mood and modality.
More particularly, they should be in a position to identify the various effects of speakers' choices, to describe morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of mood and modality and their interaction with other verbal categories, to argue for or against particular analyses and to relate language data to linguistic theory. They should be in a position to develop their views in speech or in writing, making reference to both empirical and theoretical arguments.
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Adapt to new situations
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Generate new research ideas
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
Mood is often defined as the morphological expression of modality, which includes cognitive and notional categories such as necessity, possibility, probability, conditionality etc. Both mood and modality may be manifested in various forms in a language, which affect the syntax and semantics of a sentence and are also directly linked with the performance of particular speech acts. The course examines specific questions relating to the description of these categories in English, which include the formal and functional features of the system of modal auxiliary verbs as well as the less obvious morpho-syntactic mood distinctions, such as the subjunctive and the imperative. Following the description of the English facts, a comparison is attempted with the corresponding data from the verbal systems of Greek and other languages. The study of verbal categories across languages has been a central concern of theoretical approaches especially within language typology and grammaticalization theory. Students will be required to analyze linguistic facts they are already familiar with (such as the special characteristics of "modal auxiliary verbs") in terms of well-defined theoretical predictions.
Specific topics include the following items:
1. Introducing Mood and Modality; mood and modal systems; the Classical tradition; Germanic modals and the class of English modal auxiliaries
2. The English modal auxiliaries: identifying core modals, semi-modals, modal expressions; morpho-syntactic properties
3. Types of Modality: event vs propositional modality (Palmer 2001); epistemic-deontic-dynamic (Palmer 1986); agent-/speaker-oriented, epistemic, subordinating (Bybee et al. 1994)
4. Factors affecting modal interpretation: the interaction of Tense and Aspect in cross-linguistic terms
5. Modality in grammar and discourse: grammaticalization theory and semantic maps
6. Modality and Tense
7. Markedness reversals; modal indicatives and non-modal subjunctives
8. The Subjunctive in English and across languages
9. The Imperative in English and across languages
10. The Prohibitive in English and across languages
11. The Conditional in English and across languages
12. Beyond modality: evidentiality and mirativity
Keywords
mood, modality, modal verbs, speech acts, Tense-Aspect-Mood systems
Educational Material Types
- Notes
- Slide presentations
- Multimedia
- Interactive excersises
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 39 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Reading Assigment | 108 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Exams | 3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Total | 150 |
Student Assessment
Description
Optional assignments and final written exam. All criteria are explicitly mentioned in the class moodle pages.
Student Assessment methods
- Written Exam with Multiple Choice Questions (Formative, Summative)
- Written Exam with Short Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
- Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
- Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
- Written Exam with Problem Solving (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
Bybee, J., Perkins, R. & Pagliuca, W. 1994. The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect and Modality in the Languages of the World. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
Hansen, B. & De Haan, F. (eds). 2009. Modals in the Languages of Europe: A Reference Work. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Huddleston, R. 2002. The Verb [Section 3; Tense, aspect, and mood: preliminaries]. In R. Huddleston & G. K. Pullum, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge University Press.
De Haan, F. 2006. Typological approaches to modality. In W. Frawley (ed.) The Expression of Modality. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 27-69.
Depraetere, I. & C. Langford. 2012. Advanced English Grammar: A Linguistic Approach. London & New York: Continuum.
Depraetere, I. & Reed, S. 2006. “Mood and Modality in English.” In B. Aarts & A. McMahon (eds) The Handbook of English Linguistics. Blackwell, 269-290.
Timberlake, A. 2007. “Aspect, Tense, Mood”. In T. Shopen (ed.) Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Volume 3: Grammatical Categories and the Lexicon. (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, 280-333.
Heine, B. 1995. Agent-Oriented vs. Epistemic Modality: Some Observations on German Modals. In J. L. Bybee and S. Fleischman (eds) Modality in Grammar and Discourse (Typological Studies in Language 32). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 17-53.
Heine, B. & Kuteva, T. 2002. World Lexicon of Grammaticalization. Cambridge University Press.
Palmer, F. R. 1986. Mood and Modality. Cambridge University Press.
Palmer, F. R. 2001. Mood and Modality. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press.
Rothstein, B. & R. Thieroff, R. (eds). 2010. Mood in the Languages of Europe. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins
van der Auwera, J. & Plungian, V. A. 1998. Modality’s semantic map. Linguistic Typology 2: 79-124.
van der Auwera, J. & Ammann, A. with Kindt, S. 2005. Modal polyfunctionality and Standard Average European. In Alex Klinge & Henrik Hoeg Müller (eds.) Modality. Studies in Form and Function. London: Equinox.
Ziegeler, D. 2019. Mood and Modality. In B. Aarts, J. Bowie & G. Popova (eds) Oxford Handbook of English Grammar. Oxford University Press, 418-438.
Last Update
17-09-2024
