Abstract
This chapter is devoted to subjunctive mood, a phenomenon which shares a number of important properties with Irrealis Genitive. First, the chapter introduces the subjunctive/indicative contrast in Romance languages and in Russian on a descriptive level. The introduction is followed by a detailed review of the analysis of subjunctive complement clauses proposed by Farkas ( Assertion, belief and mood choice. Paper presented at the workshop on Conditional and Unconditional Modality, ESSLLI, Vienna, 2003). This analysis, formulated within the framework of dynamic semantics, relates subjunctive mood to the absence of commitment to either truth or falsity of the proposition they contribute. A distinction is introduced between strong intensional verbs (e.g. epistemic and fiction predicates), whose complements are indicative, and weak intensional verbs (e.g. desideratives and directives), which do license subjunctive mood. I further consider the way in which Farkas’ analysis can be extended to account for the choice of mood in additional environments.
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