A cross-linguistic approach to the syntax of subjunctive mood/ Lena Baunaz, Genoveva Puskás.
Baunaz, Lena.; Puskás, Genoveva.
2022
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Title A cross-linguistic approach to the syntax of subjunctive mood/ Lena Baunaz, Genoveva Puskás.
Author Baunaz, Lena.
ISBN 9783031045400 (electronic bk.)
3031045408 (electronic bk.)
9783031045394
3031045394
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04540-0
Publication Details Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (224 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-04540-0 doi
Call Number P281
Dewey Decimal Classification 415
Summary This monograph gives a unified account of the syntactic distribution of subjunctive mood across languages, including Romance, Balkan (South Slavic and Modern Greek), and Hungarian, among others. Starting from a close scrutiny of the environments in which subjunctive mood occurs and of its semantic contribution, we present a feature-based approach which reveals the common properties of the class of verbs which embed subjunctive, and which takes into account the variation in subjunctive-related complementizers. Two main proposals can be highlighted: (i) the lexical semantics of the main clause predicate plays a crucial role in mood selection. More specifically subjunctive mood is regulated by a specific property of the main predicate, the emotive property, which is associated with the external argument of the embedding verb (usually the Subject). The book proposes a nanosyntactic analysis of the internal structure of embedding verbs. (ii) Cross- and intra-linguistic variations are dealt with according to different patterns of lexicalization, i.e., variations depend on what portions of the verbs and complementizers functional sequence is lexicalized and on how it is packaged by languages. In doing so, this approach provides a uniform account of the phenomenon of embedded subjunctives. The monograph takes a novel, feature-based approach to the question of subjunctive licensing, providing a detailed analysis of the features of the matrix verb, of the complementizer and of the embedded subjunctive clause. It is also based on a wide empirical coverage, ranging from the relatively well-studied groups of Romance and Balkan languages to less explored languages from non-Indo-European families (Hungarian).
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 22, 2022).
Added Author Puskás, Genoveva.
Series Studies in natural language and linguistic theory ; v. 101.
Available in Other Form A Cross-Linguistic Approach to the Syntax of Subjunctive Mood.
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Introduction
Background
Subjunctive Predicate
Subjunctive Complementation
Cross-linguistic variation
Conclusion.

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