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UNINA9910584484503321 |
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Autore |
Baunaz Lena |
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Titolo |
A Cross-linguistic Approach to the Syntax of Subjunctive Mood / / by Lena Baunaz, Genoveva Puskás |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2022.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 pages) |
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Collana |
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Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, , 2215-0358 ; ; 101 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax |
Linguistics |
Language and languages - Philosophy |
Syntax |
Philosophy of Language |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Background -- Subjunctive Predicate -- Subjunctive Complementation -- Cross-linguistic variation -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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portions of the verb’s and complementizer’s 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). |
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