Abstract
Sentence mood in German is a complex category that is determined by various components of the grammatical system. Verbal mood, the position of the finite verb and the wh-characteristics of the so-called 'Vorfeld'-phrase in particular play a prominent role in constituting sentence mood in German. This article proposes a theory of sentence mood constitution in German and investigates the interaction determined by binding theory between pronouns and indefinite noun phrases which are semantically analysed as choice functions. It is shown that the semantic objects determined by sentence mood define different kinds of domains which have to be uniquely accessible as the range of the choice function. The various properties of the pronominal binding of indefinites can be derived by the interplay of the proposed theoretical notions.
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