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Peer reviewedStuderos, Leonard H. – Hispania, 1981
Explores the interrelationships among mood usage, syntactic contrast and past temporal reference in Spanish. Describes specific effects of varying temporal reference on mood and syntactic signaling, and employs an inventory of five subjunctive determining matrices to show that such effects are best explained by means of a…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Usage, Models, Spanish
Peer reviewedSuner, Margarita – Hispania, 1989
Presents examples of how children acquire language through the principles-and-parameters model, a highly modular system in which different theories interact so that only permissible sequences arise, and highlights research on Spanish syntax and semantics. (136 references) (CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedCollentine, Joseph – Hispania, 1995
Examines the difficulty foreign language learners of Spanish experience in distinguishing between indicative and subjunctive moods after four semesters of study. An analysis of two oral production tasks suggests that, at this intermediate level, they are unlikely to possess enough linguistic foundation to fully benefit from instruction in mood…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Course Content, Discourse Analysis
