ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics

On Two Types of Mood Shift in Icelandic Conditionals

Abstract Ordinarily, the finite verb of Icelandic "o-marked" conditional ef-protases occurs in the indicative. However, subjunctive finite verbs are obligatory under "conditional inversion," i.e., in V1-protases, and they occasionally show up in present tense ef-protases. In this...