Assertion and Speaker's Intention: A Pragmatically Based Account of Mood in Spanish

Mejías-Bikandi, Errapel

doi:10.2307/345752

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“…Therefore, the subjunctive mood is used. Undoubtedly, Dam and Dam-Jensen (2010) offer a most appealing explanation of mood choice in Spanish and they also represent an alternative to the traditional analysis of mood in terms of assertion and non-assertion (Lavandera 1983;Lunn 1989;Mejías-Bikandi 1994Terrell and Hooper 1974;Terrell 1995). Nonetheless, their analysis also seems to create explanatory problems.…”

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Instructions or dominion?

Vesterinen

2013

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In a highly interesting study, Dam and Dam-Jensen (2010) put forward the idea that the indicative and the subjunctive mood in Spanish complementizer phrases can be explained by the instructions they convey. The indicative instructs the addressee to locate the situation created by the verb relative to the situation of utterance, whereas the subjunctive instructs the addressee not to locate the situation described by the verb relative to the situation of utterance. Although this explanation is most appealing, the present paper argues that it also may create explanatory problems. Thus, it is claimed that the notion of dominion can explain the semantic meaning of the Spanish subjunctive mood. This verbal mood designates events that are located outside the conceptualizer's dominion, either in terms of epistemic control or in terms of effective control.

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“…As Maldonado puts it: "The notion of dominion refers to the conceptualizer's capacity to control actively and to manipulate a circumstance in order to assess its status with respect to elaborated reality (Maldonado 1995: 406). -Bikandi (1995) for an alternative explanation related to the existence of referents instead of events.…”

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2013

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“…This is a well-established feature of Spanish(Rivero, 1971;Terrell and Hooper, 1974;Terrell, 1976;Guitart, 1991;Mejías-Bikandi, 1994.238 / MARK JARY…”

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“…Another author who has attempted to maintain the link between assertivity and the indicative is Mejías-Bikandi (1994. He differs from Guitart in that he seeks to explain complement choice in all predicates in which the indicative and subjunctive are found.…”

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Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models

Brabanter¹,

Kissine²

2009

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“…Therefore, it has been traditionally established that the most significant difference between the indicative and subjunctive moods in Spanish is the difference between certainty/objectivity (indicative) and possibility/subjectivity (subjunctive). However, mood choices obey syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors, which has generated much discussion and no consensus among researchers (Borrego et al 1986;Collentine 1995;Farley 2004;Haverkate 2002;Lipski 1978;Lozano 1972Lozano , 1975Mejías-Bikandi 1994;Sastre Ruano 1997).…”

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Subjunctive use variation among monolingual native speakers of Spanish

Gallego¹,

Alonso-Marks²

2014

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Research conducted with monolingual native Spanish speakers has yielded discrepant results concerning the loss or maintenance of the subjunctive, whereas studies conducted with heritage speakers point to a gradual subjunctive loss mainly focused on past tenses, and scarce are cross-dialectal studies investigating monolingual speakers' subjunctive use in the present tense. This study examines mood use by means of an acceptability test and a forced choice cloze test conducted by native speakers of two varieties of Spanish. One hundred and four adult monolingual native speakers of Spanish participated in the study -N = 56 from Rosario, Argentina and N = 56 from Toledo, Spain. Results indicate an overall vitality of the subjunctive and also reveal slight differences regarding acceptability based on gender and region.

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Assertion and Speaker's Intention: A Pragmatically Based Account of Mood in Spanish

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Instructions or dominion?

Instructions or dominion?

Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models

Subjunctive use variation among monolingual native speakers of Spanish

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