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Sentential complement acquisition in L1 and L2: (Non)conjunction of factivity and mood
Abstract
Spanish mood selection has long been of interest to grammarians. Much work has been done in a traditional semantic approach to mood use and, more recently, an attempt has been made to find a syntactic solution to the problem, using among others Transformational Grammar and X-bar Theory as models. This dissertation analyzes the problem from the viewpoint of acquisition. In chapter 1, I review the basic syntactic models of mood selection in embedded noun clauses and conclude that the structure of embedded noun clauses is better predicted by semantic type than by mood. The second chapter discusses possible models of first and second language acquisition and hypothesizes that the two may be similar in the acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive.
Subject Area
Modern language|Linguistics|Language arts|Language
Recommended Citation
Al-Kasey, Tamara Schall, "Sentential complement acquisition in L1 and L2: (Non)conjunction of factivity and mood" (1993). Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest. AAI9329558.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9329558