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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Subjunctive"”.
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Apples and Oranges: Indicative Independence versus Subjunctive Subordination
… select for a complement in either indicative or subjunctive mood? Against the backdrop of the recent semantics-based analyses of modal anchoring (Farkas 1992) and shifting epistemic models (Quer 1998; Giannakidou 1997), this thesis investigates the idiosyncratic behaviour of polarity-induced …
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The German reportative subjunctive: a relevance-theoretic analysis
… of the German verb form known as the reportative subjunctive, which occurs exclusively in indirect-speech contexts. It is argued that the German reportative subjunctive encodes procedural meaning, whose purpose is to reduce the amount of processing effort that a hearer must expend in inferring …
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The subjunctive mood in the writings of Emily Dickinson
The subjunctive mood in the poems of Emily Dickinson was from the outset a source of confusion to editors and readers. The first editors thought that these forms, in particular the third person singular verbs which omit the s inflection, were incorrect usages. These editors often ''corrected" them …
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The Subjunctive in Celtic: Studies in Historical Phonology and Morphology
… and morphological development of the subjunctive mood in the Celtic languages, and to come to a reconstruction of the category based on all of the data attested in the documented languages. The origin of the various subjunctive morphemes attested in the Celtic languages has long been a …
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The time of possibilities : truth and felicity of subjunctive conditionals
… those conditionals that are traditionally called subjunctive conditionals, and to provide an answer to how to select the worlds that the modal operator quantifies' over. Finally, I argue that the semantic analyses of counterfactuals discussed by Lewis (1979) - Analysis 1 and Analysis 2 - cannot be …
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Markedness and instructed SLA: An experiment in teaching the Spanish subjunctive
… examined whether instruction in a marked Spanish subjunctive use had an effect on the acquisition of this marked element and triggered the acquisition of unmarked subjunctive uses. For the purpose of the study, the instructional method used was processing instruction.
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A comparative study of the future subjunctive tense in Spanish and Portuguese.
A Comparative Study of the Future Subjunctive Tense in Spanish and Portuguese includes the classification of 634 examples of the future subjunctive taken from Cervantes' El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha. The classification falls into three main groups: conditional sentences introduced …
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A Syntactic Correlate of Semantic and Pragmatic Relations: The Subjunctive Mood in Spanish
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The Interface Between Instruction Type and Learner Readiness in the Acquisition of Spanish Personal a and the Subjunctive
The results of the study reveal no significant effect for Instruction Type or Readiness. Nonetheless, the results suggest both theoretical and pedagogical implications, the former in terms of Pienemann's Processability framework and the latter regarding the potential impact of instruction type on …
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The Relative Effects of Processing Instruction and Meaning -Based Output Instruction on L2 Acquisition of the Spanish Subjunctive
MOI is unlike traditional output-based instruction in that it does not carry a mechanical component. In addition, MOI provides incidental input to learners that is focused on the target item. These issues are discussed as the most plausible explanations for the results that differ from previous …
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Cohésion modale et subordination : Le conditionnel et le jussif finnois au miroir de la valeur sémantique et discursive du subjonctif français
… and jussive moods in comparison to the French subjunctive This study examines verb moods in subordinate clauses in French and Finnish. The first part of the analysis deals with the syntax and semantics of the French subjunctive, mood occurring mostly in subordinate positions. The second part …
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Mood Simplification: Adverbial Clauses in Heritage Spanish
… not play a big role in recognizing and using the subjunctive. There are similarities between the monolingual and heritage speakers regarding familiarity with and use of the grammatical subjunctive. Heritage speakers seem to be more tolerant towards the ungrammatical presence of indicative, like L2 …
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Tense and mood variation in Spanish nominal subordinates: The case of Peruvian varieties
… verb types that require subordinate verbs in subjunctive mood (e.g. quiero que vengas “I want you to come”), and both verbs (the main and the subordinate) with the same tense (quería que vinieras “I wanted (PAST) you to come (PAST)”). Although other Latin American dialects allow present tense …
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Exploring the Development of Counterfactual Reasoning in Chinese Preschool Children
… on children speaking languages that apply subjunctive forms to directly signal counterfactuality (e.g., English). Little has been known about the development of counterfactual reasoning in children speaking Chinese, which does not use subjunctive forms to indicate counterfactuality. This …
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The Effect of Textual Enhancement on Second Language Learner Reading Comprehension and Form Recognition
… has high communicative value and the imperfect subjunctive has low communicative value. A total of 109 participants enrolled in third-semester Spanish read a text in one of five conditions: no enhancement, morphology enhancement/progressive, whole word enhancement/progressive, morphology …
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The Syntax of Temporal Interpretation in Embedded Clauses
… to Principle A), (iii) the Spanish present subjunctive is a tenseless form which behaves syntactically very similar to an infinitive and (iv) (non)-finiteness can be defined in terms of binding. This thesis aims to contribute to linguistic theory by presenting a solution to the problem of …
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The Syntax of Temporal Interpretation in Embedded Clauses
… to Principle A), (iii) the Spanish present subjunctive is a tenseless form which behaves syntactically very similar to an infinitive and (iv) (non)-finiteness can be defined in terms of binding. This thesis aims to contribute to linguistic theory by presenting a solution to the problem of …
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Regional variation of mood use in Spanish: A comparison among three Spanish-speaking regions
… has reported that the use of verbal moods (the subjunctive and indicative) in Spanish is variable. One of the reasons for this variation appears to be a centuries-long process of language change, during which the subjunctive mood seemed to show a decline in favor of the indicative mood. …
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Anatomy of an Attitude
… island. Chapter 5 examines two types of polarity subjunctives in Russian: embedded subjunctive clauses whose ability to occur with certain verbs depends on the entailment properties of the environment. I argue that the subjunctive particle activates alternatives which have to be acted upon by a …
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Language sample analysis for Spanish speakers
… Relative Clauses, Infinitive Clauses, Present Subjunctive, Third Person Plural Present and Preterit Indicative, Irregular Preterit Indicative, Indirect and Direct Object Clitics, Imperfect, and Plural Nouns were the most problematic forms for English-Spanish bilinguals with LI. Clinical …
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