Discourse Criteria in the Selection of Mood in Spanish: concessive clauses

• Autores: Dolores Ligatto
• Localización: Hispania, ISSN 0018-2133, Vol. 85, Nº 1, 2002, págs. 137-149
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The problematics of the selection of mood in Spanish (indicative/subjunctive) can be looked at from different perspectives, interest in complement clauses having, up to now, attracted most attention. This paper explores the less-studied subordinate concessive clauses in Spanish from a pragmalinguistic standpoint in mainly interactive contexts. The basic hypothesis discussed here is the discursive dimension of the subjunctive consisting of the reformulation of a previously given content