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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UMASS/oai:scholarworks.umass.edu:dissertations-8680 |
| Date | 01 January 1993 |
| Creators | Al-Kasey, Tamara Schall |
| Publisher | ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst |
| Source Sets | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Source | Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest |
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