Yelin, Boris. M.A., Purdue University, May 2014. The case of capaz in Argentina: an epistemic adverb with mood variability. Major Professor: Lori Czerwionka. This thesis examines mood selection in Argentine Spanish with epistemic adverbs considering the independent variables of certainty, temporal reference, and epistemic adverb. It is the first known study to investigate mood selection with th...

In addition to the expression of positive and negative sentiments in the reviews, customers often tend to express wishes and suggestions regarding improvements in a product/service, which could be worth extracting. Subjunctive mood is often present in sentences which speak about a possibility or action that has not yet occurred. While this phenomena poses challenges to the identification of pos...

This paper aims at an account of the German ‘‘reportive subjunctive’’, where the mood signals that the proposition is the object of an utterance report. The report can be explicit in the sentence or in the context, or more or less implicit. We interpret these uses as a more or less local verification or accommodation of a presupposition introduced by the subjunctive, thus accounting for a range...

The benefits of textual input enhancement in the acquisition of linguistic forms have produced mixed results in SLA literature. The present study investigates the effects of textual enhancement on adult foreign language intake of two English linguistic forms-subjunctive mood and inversion structures-to explore the role of the type of linguistic items in input enhancement studies. It also invest...

mood is, in general, a meaning concept that indicates the speaker’s point of view about a proposition. there are different modal elements in each language to embody a mood; in other words, different languages have variety of methods to express modal concepts. using verbal moods is one of these methods. verbal mood represents the morphology of a verb and can hence be considered as a grammatical ...

This study deals with the issue of mood choice in complement clauses French, which speakers may choose between indicative or subjunctive. We report on results two experiments using an elicitation task, we investigated how matrix verb, via its distributive patterns (i.e. verbs selecting only subjunctive vs. accepting either mood), tense and grammatical aspect influences clause. While role semant...

In recent research on aphasia, a considerable number of studies have examined deficits in patients with agrammatism in the domain of verb-finiteness marking in different languages. Whilst much of this research has focused on tense and subject-verb agreement and has shown that tense is particularly impaired, the nature of verb-finiteness deficits in agrammatism is still a matter of controversy. ...