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Author Busch, Hans-Jörg, author

Title A complete guide to the Spanish subjunctive / Hans-Jörg Busch
Published London : Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 195 pages)
Contents Purpose and scope of this book -- About the empiric material and the examples used in this book -- Overview of the subjunctive literature -- The subjunctive: an expression of modality -- The subjunctive: the morphosyntactic manifestation of mood -- Attempts to define the meaning of the subjunctive -- The function or systematic grammatical meaning of the indicative, subjunctive and imperative moods in Spanish -- The sequence of tenses of the subjunctive -- The grammatical function of dependent subjunctive clauses -- The communicative potential of the subjunctive -- Mood variation throughout the Spanish speaking world -- Synopsis -- Alphabetic list of conjunctions that are used with the subjunctive or both moods
Summary A Complete Guide to the Spanish Subjunctive is the most complete reference guide to the use of the subjunctive in Spanish. After an exhaustive review of published literature on the subjunctive, and a thorough discussion of all the uses of the subjunctive, including those that have generated much discussion, for example after 'el hecho de que', causative predicates and verbs of emotion, as well as after certain conjunctions, such as 'aunque' and 'después de que', the book presents a comprehensive theory of the subjunctive and provides practical rules for understanding, teaching and acquiring this linguistic structure. The book contains a wealth of authentic examples throughout drawn from linguistic corpora such as the Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA) and the Corpus del Español del Siglo XXI (CORPES XXI), large databases compiled by the Royal Spanish Language Academy and available on-line at http://www.rae.es/. This book includes: a 'synopsis' section that summarizes the content of the work and offers practical suggestions for teaching the subjunctive. An extensive alphabetical list of expressions with the subjunctive or the subjunctive and the indicative. An extensive and up-to-date bibliography of subjunctive literature
Notes Text in English with examples of the Spanish subjunctive in Spanish
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Spanish language -- Subjunctive
Spanish language -- Verb phrases
Spanish language -- Modality
Spanish language -- Grammar
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Spanish.
Spanish language -- Grammar
Spanish language -- Modality
Spanish language -- Subjunctive
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317332565
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9781315658940
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9781317332572
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