Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Systematic Investigation of the Spanish Subjunctive

博士论文研究：西班牙语虚拟语气的系统研究

• 批准号: 1941846
• 负责人: Elena Herburger
• 金额: $ 1.4万
• 依托单位: Georgetown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-02-15 至 2022-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1941846&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Systematic; Investigation

The Romance language family is known to have a productive contrast between two verbal 'moods', the subjunctive and the indicative. Subjunctive-selecting clauses are those in which a speaker expresses a desire, demand, doubt, emotion, possibility, purpose, or cause. According to traditional grammar, Spanish, being a Romance language, also adheres to these restrictions. However, contrary to what is expected, Spanish-speakers select the indicative in many 'subjunctive-requiring' environments. Many frameworks used to describe the choice of mood focus exclusively on prescriptively correct patterns of selection. As a result, the unexpected use of indicative in subjunctive clauses is left untouched by traditional semantic theory. This dissertation research project, thus, aims to develop a semanto-pragmatic account of mood that can explain mood variation that is non-prescriptive. However, prior to developing such an account, the current project seeks to confirm the extent to which this variability exists, as well as the dialects in which it is present. In this way, a more comprehensive description of the Spanish mood system that accounts for both dialect-specific and non-prescriptive variability will become available. This will lead to a better understanding of Spanish, the second most common language spoken in the U.S.A corpus study will be carried out in order to obtain naturally-occurring examples of mood use in the eight traditionally subjunctive-requiring contexts. The items obtained will be adapted for inclusion in an Acceptability Judgment Task (AJT). The objective is to test how specific contexts affect participant views on the acceptability of either mood. Results from the AJTs and follow-up interviews will provide greater insight into the semanto-pragmatic factors conditioning mood variation in environments in which it is not supposed to occur. The participants forming part of the experiment will come from various Spanish dialects. Since no systematic, widespread study of Spanish has been carried out, data from this project will expand on the body of knowledge that currently exists. Additionally, in terms of a theoretical standpoint, such an investigation will help to fill the research gaps related to non-prescriptive uses of mood.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

众所周知，浪漫语言家族在两个言语“情绪”（虚拟语言和指示性）之间具有富有成效的对比。虚拟序列的条款是说话者表达欲望，需求，怀疑，情感，可能性，目的或原因的条款。根据传统语法，西班牙语是一种浪漫的语言，也遵守这些限制。但是，与预期的相反，西班牙语扬声器在许多“婚音征用”环境中选择了指示性。许多用于描述情绪选择的框架专门针对规定正确的选择模式。结果，传统语义理论未能使指示性在虚拟语句中的意外使用。因此，该论文研究项目的目的是开发一种对情绪的半词性描述，可以解释非处方的情绪变化。但是，在开发该帐户之前，当前的项目试图确认这种可变性的存在程度以及存在的方言。通过这种方式，将对西班牙情绪系统进行更全面的描述，该系统可以说明方言特定和非处方可变性。这将导致对西班牙语的更好理解，西班牙语是美国语料库研究中第二个最常见的语言，以获取在八种传统的虚质婚音征用的环境中自然出现的情绪使用例子。获得的项目将适用于纳入可接受性判断任务（AJT）。目的是测试特定环境如何影响参与者对任何一种情绪的可接受性的看法。 AJT的结果和后续访谈将为不应该发生的环境调节情绪变化提供更深入的洞察力。构成实验部分的参与者将来自各种西班牙方言。由于没有对西班牙语进行系统的广泛研究，因此该项目的数据将扩大目前存在的知识体系。此外，就理论观点而言，这种调查将有助于填补与情绪非处方使用相关的研究空白。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的评估来评估值得支持的。