Download or read book A Critical Analysis of Interpretations of the Spanish Subjunctive from Bello to the Present Day written by Brian J. Castronovo and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A critical analysis of interpretations of the Spanish subjunctive from Bello to the present day written by Brian Joseph Castronovo and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Critical Analysis of Interpretations of the Spanish Subjunctive from Bello to the Present Day written by Brian J. Castronovo and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Spanish Subjunctive A Reference for Teachers written by Hans-Jorg Busch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Complete Guide to the Spanish Subjunctive is the most complete reference guide to the use of the subjunctive in Spanish. Along with an exhaustive review of published literature on the subjunctive, the book also includes a thorough discussion of the uses and meanings of the subjunctive as well as examples throughout drawn from linguistic corpora such as the CREA database. The book presents a comprehensive theory of the subjunctive and provides practical rules for understanding, teaching and acquiring the Spanish subjunctive. This book includes: "Your Turn" sections that invite readers to reflect on the content discussed and on their own experiences in teaching the subjunctive A "Synopsis" section that summarizes the content of the work and offers practical suggestions for teaching the subjunctive Two indexes providing a summary of verb conjugation in the subjunctive and an alphabetical list of expressions used with the subjunctive.

Download or read book The Development of Subjunctive Use with Expressions of Emotion from Latin to Spanish written by Julia E. Ferrell and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Syntax Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish Mood written by Henk Haverkate and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-09-24 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a consistent description and explanation of the syntax, the semantics and the pragmatics of Spanish mood. A major focus of attention is the central role of the truthfunctional categories of realis, potentialis and irrealis as parameters relevant to mood selection in both subordinate and non-subordinate clauses. Furthermore, a proposal is offered for a new typology of clause-embedding predicates. The framework chosen stems from the insight that complement-taking predicates share the property of providing information on the set of mental processes which characterize intentional human behavior. At the level of pragmatic analysis, mood selection is examined from a variety of angles. Thus, specific research is conducted within the framework of speech act theory, relevance theory, politeness theory and the theory of Gricean maxims.

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Download or read book L2 Learners Difficulties in the Interpretation of the Spanish Subjunctive written by Jeannette Sanchez-Naranjo and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines L2 learners' difficulties in the acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive. In particular, it investigates the interpretations English-speaking L2 learners of Spanish assign to the subjunctive in temporal, concessive, and conditional clauses, where mood choice involves the interaction of morpho-syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic knowledge. In contrast to previous research that has given little attention to the difficulties L2 learners experience, this study hypothesizes they might be attributed to "input traps" resulting from L1 transfer of syntactic and semantic properties of the subjunctive adjuncts and misanalysis of the input due to the lack of integration of different types of information. This study tests this claim by comparing the grammars of English-speaking L2 learners of Spanish with those of native Spanish speakers. If L2 learners share similar patterns with L1 speakers in contexts where both languages behave similarly, and exhibit different patterns from L1 speakers in contexts where both languages behave differently, difficulties should be attributed to L1 influence on the L2. On the other hand, if L2 learners exhibit different patterns from L1 speakers in contexts where semantic or pragmatic features determine the use of the subjunctive, difficulties should be attributed to failures in form-meaning mappings. Data collection involved a Preference Task with three possible options: a sentence with the indicative, with the subjunctive, or no preference. Subjects were asked to select which of the three choices they preferred according to the context presented in the story. Twenty advanced English-speaking L2 learners of Spanish and twenty native speakers from different Spanish-speaking countries, who served as the control group, took part in this study. Results indicate that subjunctive adjuncts present difficulties in L2 acquisition even for advanced L2 learners. Although they exhibit sensitivity to certain subjunctive features and contextual meanings, data reveal that convergence and non-convergence were primarily determined by L1 influence on L2. Crucially, those features absent from the L1 give rise to greater efforts and difficulties in L2 form-meaning mappings of mood selection.

Download or read book Current Trends and Issues in Hispanic Linguistics written by Lenard Studerus and published by Sil International, Global Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sampling of some of the diverse studies recently carried out by investigators with varying divergent yet partially overlapping interests in the Spanish language. This book includes information on: Recent trends in Hispanic linguistics / Frank Nuessel; African influence on Hispanic dialects / John Lipski; The Spanish teacher as dialectologist / Mark G. Goldin; Noun gender categories in Spanish and French / Richard V. Teschner. This book is published by SIL International and is part of our series on Linguistics.

Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Comprehensive Dissertation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hispanic Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Interpretation of the French and Spanish Subjunctive by L1 L2 and L3 Speakers written by Audrey Kay Restorick Elordi and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis looks at how factors such as cross-linguistic transfer affect the degree of attainment of one morphosyntax-pragmatic interface phenomenon in particular: the subjunctive in French and Spanish in contexts where mood can alternate without ungrammaticality. According to Quer (1998), such contexts present variation amongst native speakers (NSs). In order to identify the external and internal factors that govern this variation, we asked our control groups, 43 NSs of French and 22 NSs of Spanish, to fill out a linguistic profile and a scenario selection task. 36 L1 English speakers completed these same tasks in addition to a linguistic background questionnaire. 23 of these participants were students of French and 13 were students of Spanish. 15 of the students of French had no knowledge of Spanish whereas 8 did. As for the students of Spanish, 5 had no knowledge of French and 8 did. The results from our scenario selection task suggest that positive cross-linguistic influence occurs both from the direction of the L2 to the L3 and from the L3 to the L2 since the multilingual learners outperformed the bilingual learners, most likely due to their increased exposure to the subjunctive in more than one non native tongue. Such results also suggest that adult L2 learners are better able to acquire an interface phenomenon when they are also learning an L3 which uses it in the same way, because they are able to advantageously apply their knowledge of this concept in French to Spanish, and vice-versa.

Download or read book Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 1985 written by Hans Borkent and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1987-11-30 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Subjunctive and Sequence of Tense in Three Varieties of Spanish written by Gustavo Guajardo and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish generally shows a Sequence of Tense (SOT) phenomenon in subjunctive clauses: the tense of the embedded clause (present or past) must agree with the tense of the matrix clause. It has been reported, however, that one kind of violation sometimes occurs, in which a present tense subjunctive clause is embedded under a past tense matrix clause (e.g., Quería que me ayudes (present subjunctive) (instead of ayudaras (past subjunctive)) "I wanted you to help me"). The acceptability of this SOT violation has been argued to depend on two main factors: the semantic class of the main predicate (Suñer and Padilla-Rivero 1987, Quer 1998) and the temporal interpretation of the embedded clause (Laca 2010b). A factor that has been less discussed in the literature, which contributes to the acceptability of the present tense under past, is cross-dialectal variation; in some dialects SOT seems to be enforced more strongly and SOT violations are not very common, whereas in other dialects violations of SOT of the type shown above appear to be fully grammatical (Sessarego 2008, 2010; Del Río 2014; Guajardo 2010). Using corpus and experimental methods, this dissertation examines violations of SOT in three Spanish varieties (Argentinean, Mexican and Peninsular (i.e., European) Spanish) in order to determine what makes violations of SOT more acceptable in certain varieties than others. The corpus study analyzes the amount of variation found in each of the three dialects. It is found that in Argentinean Spanish, violations of SOT occur at a much higher rate (30%) than in Mexican (6%) and Peninsular Spanish (3%). However, no lexical effects are found in any of the three varieties; any embedded verb appears to be able to engage in this process. An acceptability experiment allows us to examine this variation in more detail by manipulating the temporal interpretation of the embedded clause in order to determine whether interpretation of the embedded clause has any effect on the acceptability of the present subjunctive. These results show that interpretation of the embedded clause does play a role, but to different degrees in the three varieties: Argentina presents a very small effect and Mexico and Spain show much larger effects. In addition, the results show that in Argentina, present and past subjunctive are largely in free variation when embedded under a past matrix clause. I conclude that Argentinean Spanish exhibits higher rates of violations of SOT because the present subjunctive is tenseless and therefore free to occur under any matrix tense.

Download or read book Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: