Chapter 2
Mood selection in a contact variety
The case of Yucatec Spanish
Researchers have noted unique qualities of
Yucatec Spanish with regard to phonetics, syntax, and pragmatics
(Bove, 2019; Hoot, 2016; Michnowicz, 2009, 2012; Solomon, 1996, 1999). The objective of this study is
twofold: to describe mood in Yucatec Spanish and to identify how
bilingual and monolingual speakers’ mood selection differs. Results
indicate that volitional predicates categorically license
subjunctive while alternation exists under emotive and epistemic
predicates. This alternation highlights statistically significant
differences between monolingual and bilingual speakers of Yucatec
Spanish (p = 0.01 and 0.04 respectively). Emotive
predicates pattern with previous accounts of Mexican Spanish (e.g.,
Lope Blanch, 1989),
but unanticipated subjunctive selection in epistemic assertions,
interrogatives, and statements with past temporal reference
highlight a difference between monolingual and bilingual
participants.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Previous semantic accounts of mood in Spanish
- 2.1Mood selection in contact varieties
- 2.2Yucatec Spanish
- 2.3Yucatec Maya and the subjunctive
- 3.Methodology
- 3.1Data collection
- 3.2Forced choice task
- 3.3Task design
- 3.4Participants
- 3.5Data analysis
- 4.Results
- 4.1Volitional predicates
- 4.2Emotive predicates
- 4.3Epistemic predicates
- 5.Discussion
- 6.Conclusion
-
Notes
-
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