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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
Negation and Mood: In Their Reference to Symmetry and Asymmetry
Anahit Hovahnnisyan
(Shirak State University, Armenia)
Abstract: This paper aims at studying negation in relation to mood. More specifically it aims to unveil symmetric and asymmetric manifestation of negation/affirmation in the frame of different moods. The thorough study of the illustrated material makes it possible to bring to light the interwoven relation reigning in the kingdom of negation and various modal mappings of verbs in English. An endeavour is made to prove that a verbal form in any paradigm of mood entirely governs the implicit and explicit expression of negation. Hence, the battle lines between a negative form and its semantics is drawn by a grammatical mood. The findings of our analysis show that asymmetrical relations are of common occurrence in oblique moods, where the verbs are used in the past tense. In this case the gap between the form and meaning of the verbal item is greater.
Key words: mood, negation, symmetry, asymmetry, objectivity, subjectivity
