Mood and gradability: An investigation of the subjunctive mood in Spanish

Linguistics and Philosophy

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 467-522

  Villalta, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Focus; Propositional attitudes; Semantics of comparison; Subjunctive mood

Indexed keywords

EID: 58949083500     PISSN: 01650157     EISSN: 15730549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-008-9046-x     Document Type: Article

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