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，罗曼语系在虚拟语气和指示语这两种言语“语气”之间具有富有成效的对比。虚拟语气选择子句是说话人表达愿望、要求、怀疑、情感、可能性、目的或原因的子句。根据传统语法，西班牙语作为罗曼语族，也遵守这些限制。然而，与预期相反，西班牙语使用者在许多“需要虚拟语气”的环境中选择指示语。许多用于描述情绪选择的框架只关注规定性的正确选择模式。因此，传统语义理论没有触及虚拟语气从句中意外使用陈述语气的情况。因此，本论文研究项目旨在开发一种语义语用的情绪解释，可以解释非规定性的情绪变化。然而，在开发这样的帐户之前，当前的项目试图确认这种变异性存在的程度，以及存在这种变异性的方言。通过这种方式，可以对西班牙语气系统进行更全面的描述，该系统可以解释方言特定的和非规定性的变异性。这将有助于更好地理解西班牙语，这是美国第二大常用语言。将进行语料库研究，以获得八种传统虚拟语气环境中自然出现的语气使用示例。获得的项目将被调整以包含在可接受性判断任务（AJT）中。目的是测试特定环境如何影响参与者对任一情绪可接受性的看法。 AJT 和后续访谈的结果将更深入地了解在不应该发生的环境中调节情绪变化的语义语用因素。参与实验的参与者将来自不同的西班牙语方言。由于尚未对西班牙语进行系统、广泛的研究，因此该项目的数据将扩展现有的知识体系。此外，从理论角度来看，这样的调查将有助于填补与情绪的非规定性用途相关的研究空白。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的评估进行评估，被认为值得支持。影响审查标准。