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A Cross-linguistic Approach to the Syntax of Subjunctive MoodSubjunctive: A New Proposal

A Cross-linguistic Approach to the Syntax of Subjunctive Mood: Subjunctive: A New Proposal [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, showing that they all have an emotive argument, and that they all include a hierarchically organized set of basic features related to their external argument. We then provide a formal definition of our emotive feature and we introduce a new typology of subjunctive selecting predicates based on their featural composition. Finally, we discuss the syntactic implementation of such a proposal.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Cross-linguistic Approach to the Syntax of Subjunctive MoodSubjunctive: A New Proposal

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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
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978-3-031-04539-4
Pages
83 –117
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-04540-0_4
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[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, showing that they all have an emotive argument, and that they all include a hierarchically organized set of basic features related to their external argument. We then provide a formal definition of our emotive feature and we introduce a new typology of subjunctive selecting predicates based on their featural composition. Finally, we discuss the syntactic implementation of such a proposal.]

Published: Jul 11, 2022

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