37.1473, Books: Mood Alternations: Montero Estebaranz (2026)

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Date: 17-Apr-2026
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [support at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Mood Alternations: Montero Estebaranz (2026)


Title: Mood Alternations
Subtitle: A synchronic and diachronic study of negated complement
clauses in Spanish
Series Title: Open Romance Linguistics
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Language Science Press
           http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/582

Author(s): Raquel Montero Estebaranz

eBook

Abstract:

This book investigates Polarity Mood (PM) in Peninsular Spanish and
how the phenomenon has evolved diachronically. In particular, it
explores from a theoretical and empirical perspective the interaction
of PM with five other linguistic phenomena: (i) the verb class of the
matrix predicate, (ii) the presence of a first-person subject; (iii)
the type of matrix clause, (iv) information structure, and (v) the
presence of Negative Polarity Items. Drawing inspiration from the
competing grammars framework, the book starts by proposing an account
of mood morphology in terms of three competing systems: one in which
mood morphology is used as a hedging device to express the degree of
commitment; another in which mood is analyzed as a pronoun which
indicates that the world of evaluation lies in some accessible Context
Set; and another in which mood is used as a purely grammaticalized
syntactic marker. The second part of the book shows how the historical
competition between these systems explains the diachronic development
observed in corpus data, as well as the present-day mood selection
patterns.

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Language Family(ies): Romance

Written In: English (eng)



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