A Theory of No Moods

V.Y. Plotkin: no moods.

This approach is purely formal. The construction should/would + infinitive is a free word combination.

The category of mood has died out. It has failed to maintain and strengthen its categorial status.

There is no correlation between the plane of expression and the plane of content.

Iwish he came. I wish he would come. (same meaning, different forms)

Isuggest that he would go there. He would go there if he could. (different meanings,

same form)

,,The way to cut the ”Gordian knot” of problems posed by the analysis of modal meanings in the verb.’’ ~B.A. Ilyish