Spanish Subjunctive Clauses Require Ordered Alternatives

e se-ra alternation in Spanish subjunctive

In this paper I take a look at a classic problem in Spanish morphosyntax, namely the alternation between the forms -se and -ra in the Imperfect Subjunctive (Imperfecto de Subjuntivo). Research on this topic hasmainly focused on sociolinguistic variation, and has been done almost exclusively with impressionistic data and speaker’s intuitions. I address the problem from a usage-based perspective,...

Case Studies in Eliciting the Spanish Subjunctive in

Previous research has shown that the Spanish subjunctive is a vulnerable mood in the process of acquisition for adult heritage speakers. Specifically, the subjunctive use in optional contexts tends to be more prone to simplification (i.e. in adjectival clauses). This subjunctive emerges in monolingual Spanish-speaking children as early as two years of age and reaches more adultlike development ...

The Spanish subjunctive: Procedural semantics and pragmatic inference

On Generalization and Subsumption for Ordered Clauses

In this paper, we introduce ordered clauses as defined a sequence of literals, and investigate the properties of generalizations for ordered clauses. Furthermore, we show that the subsumption problem for ordered clauses is NP-complete, as similar as the subsumption problem for ordinal clauses. Hence, the definition that a clause is a set of literals is inessential for the intractability of subs...

Aspectual Properties of Spanish Absolute Small Clauses *

The major aim of this paper consists in determining the aspectual constraints affecting absolute small clauses (ASCs) headed by a past participle. A detailed analysis of these constructions seems to indicate that there are enough arguments to postulate the existence of two types of ASCs: those having an NP direct internal argument (AASCs), and those in which this NP is phonetically unrealized (...