I’m trying to find out what the formal difference is between the imperative and indicative moods in BSL, so I know whether instructing will look different from describing. In English you can’t quite conflate the two moods into a single ambiguous form: phrases like ‘you, fold this!’ are distinct from phrases like ‘you’re folding this’. I’m hoping BSL might afford some context-bound ambiguity here, but if the two moods are quite distinct we’ll have to select one or the other.
The ambiguity between instruction and description were crucial to the conductor’s movements in Musica Practica, and I’d like to pursue this here if it proves possible.
