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...

We present a novel supervised approach to inflection generation for verbs in Spanish. Our system takes as input the verb’s lemma form and the desired features such as person, number, tense, and is able to predict the appropriate grammatical conjugation. Even though our approach learns from fewer examples comparing to previous work, it is able to deal with all the Spanish moods (indicative, subj...

The AGM rationality postulates for belief revision play an important role in the formal-ization of subjunctive queries over knowledge bases. However, the well known triviality results by GG ardenfors in connection with the Ramsey Test make deening a query semantics corresponding to these rationality postulates a diicult task. While existing approaches avoid the triviality results by restricting...

Factive know selects the indicative, the mood of veridical sentences (Giannakidou 1998, 1999, 2009). If emotives are factive like know, why do they take the subjunctive? If both know and emotives are veridical, how can we explain the contrast between the two vis-à-vis the subjunctive? The usual way mood selection in complement clauses has been handled in the literature is by proposing a general...