Inter-Level Category of the Grammatical Mood of Verb Hybrid Forms in Slavic Languages

Abstract

The article dwells on the characteristics of the interlevel category of the grammatical mood of verb hybrid forms; it describes the inter-category status of this category as well as various approaches to its interpretation. The article considers four forms of the verbal grammatical mood (conditional, imperative, jussive, and desirative). The article analyses ways of expressing the category of grammatical mood by means of hybrid forms of a verb – verbal adjectives, infinitives, verbal nouns, which share some of the grammatical properties of several parts of speech. It also introduces the classification of the morphological means of expression of different grammatical moods in various hybrid forms of the, taking into account peculiarities of morphological and semantic-syntactic levels of the language; some common and different features of their implementation in Slavic languages.

The practical material is selected from the national corpus of the Ukrainian and Polish languages. Modern literary and journalistic texts serve as sources of illustrative material of the functional expression category of grammatical mood.