Author
Rui Marques
Keywords
Mood
Infinitive
Subjunctive
Indicative
Common ground
Common ground; context set
Abstract
The literature on mood in Romance languages has identified the conditions that lead to the use of Subjunctive or of the Indicative moods. For syntactic contexts where only one of these moods is allowed, its obligatoriness follows from the semantics of the main clause, but, in cases of mood choice, the option is pragmatically driven. This paper focuses on cases of mood choice in European Portuguese, presenting data that suggests that mood choice is conditioned by the intended effect on the conversational context.
Year of Publication
2022
Conference Name
26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
Edition
Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
Number of Pages
11
Date Published
08/2022
Publisher
Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Julian Hough & John D. Kelleher (eds.)
Conference Location
Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Other Numbers
ISSN 2308-2275
URL
https://semdial2022.github.io/includes/DubDial_Proceedings.pdf