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A Cross-linguistic Approach to the Syntax of Subjunctive Mood

Part of the Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Book Series (volume 101)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-04540-0

ISBN: 978-3-031-04539-4

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jul 11, 2022

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Chapter 1Introduction

Baunaz, Lena; Puskás, Genoveva

Pages: 1 –8

[The present monograph proposes a novel approach to the selection of embedded subjunctives. Our research emerges from several observations which led us to question the accuracy of some of the accounts available on the market. In addition, it intends to bridge the gap between semantic and...
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Chapter 2Background

Baunaz, Lena; Puskás, Genoveva

Pages: 9 –66

[The chapter provides the background to our discussion of subjunctive. We first provide a detailed presentation of the phenomenon of embedded subjunctive and its typical environments, drawing on examples from the language groups that we are targeting, namely Romance languages and Balkan...
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Chapter 3What Subjunctive Is Not

Baunaz, Lena; Puskás, Genoveva

Pages: 67 –82

[In this chapter, we provide a more in-depth discussion of the reasons why we do not adopt, at least not fully, some of the previous proposals. We discuss and raise semantic objections against a veridicality approach to mood choice. While veridicality has unquestionable syntactic and semantic...
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Chapter 4Subjunctive: A New Proposal

Baunaz, Lena; Puskás, Genoveva

Pages: 83 –117

[In this chapter, we lay out our own proposal, based on Romance languages and French in particular. We argue that predicates selecting the subjunctive mood involve an ‘emotive’ argument. We first give a detailed syntactic and semantic analysis of predicates selecting subjunctive embedded clauses,...
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Chapter 5Cross-linguistic Variation

Baunaz, Lena; Puskás, Genoveva

Pages: 119 –162

[In this chapter, we implement our analysis of subjunctive as the reflex of an emotive feature in the different languages of our study. We first focus on French, applying our theoretical framework to the various cases. We then tackle variation within the group of Romance languages (in particular...
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Chapter 6Subjunctive and Complementizers

Baunaz, Lena; Puskás, Genoveva

Pages: 163 –193

[The chapter discusses the questions in our language groups that have been left unanswered in the previous chapter. In particular we focus on emotive factive predicates and on their embedded clauses. We argue that (1) language variation boils down to lexico-syntactic differences and that (2)...
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Chapter 7Conclusion

Baunaz, Lena; Puskás, Genoveva

Pages: 195 –201

[The chapter offers a brief concluding summary of our findings and proposes paths for further exploration.]

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