Spanish heritage speakers in the Southwest: Factors contributing to the maintenance of the subjunctive in concessive clauses

Spanish in Context

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 105-126

  Mira, María Isabel Martínez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistemic modality; Heritage Spanish speakers; Indicative; Subjunctive

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649807231     PISSN: 15710718     EISSN: 15710726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/sic.6.1.07mar     Document Type: Article

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