A sentence mood account for Spanish verum

This article argues in favor of the idea that verum can result from focus marking on sentence mood. The empirical base are strategies Spanish, English and German. It is shown all them stress mood, even though to express three languages appear unrelated a superficial level: German rely finite verb, Spanish inserts particle. In article, semantic syntactic account complete each other. approach revised version Lohnstein’s mood theory focus. effect different moods derived by function has alternatives generates. analysis modeled cartographic framework (Rizzi 1997 et seq.) motivates projection lower section left periphery dedicated A feature this results interpretation proposition. principal argument developed differences across clause types fact focused checked configurations.