Busch Hans-Jörg. A Complete Guide to the Spanish Subjunctive

London, New York: Rutledge, 2020. — 205 p. — ISBN: 978-1-138-96314-6, ISBN: (e-book): 978-1-315-65894-0.A Complete Guide to the Spanish Subjunctive is the most complete reference guide to the use of the subjunctive in Spanish. After an exhaustive review of published literature on the subjunctive, and a thorough discussion of all the uses of the subjunctive, including those that have generated much discussion, for example after ‘el hecho de que’, causative predicates and verbs of emotion, as well as after certain conjunctions, such as launque’ and ‘después de que’, the book presents a comprehensive theory of the subjunctive and provides practical rules for understanding, teaching and acquiring this linguistic structure. The book contains a wealth of authentic examples throughout drawn from linguistic corpora such as the Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA) and the Corpus del Español del Siglo XXI (CORPES XXI), large databases compiled by the Royal Spanish Language Academy and available on-line.This book includes:
A ‘Synopsis’ section that summarizes the content of the work and offers
practical suggestions for teaching the subjunctive.
An extensive alphabetical list of expressions used with the subjunctive or the
subjunctive AND the indicative.
An extensive and up-to-date bibliography of subjunctive literature.Hans-Jörg Busch is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Delaware.Purpose and scope of this book
About the empiric material and the examples used in this book
Overview of the subjunctive literature
The subjunctive: an expression of modality
The subjunctive: the morphosyntactic manifestation of mood
Attempts to define the meaning of the subjunctive
The function or systematic grammatical meaning of the indicative, subjunctive and imperative moods in Spanish
The sequence of tenses of the subjunctive
The grammatical function of dependent subjunctive clauses
The communicative potential of the subjunctive
Mood variation throughout the Spanish speaking world
Synopsis
Alphabetic list of conjunctions that are used with the subjunctive or both moods