A Complete Guide to the Spanish Subjunctive is the most complete reference guide to the use of the subjunctive in Spanish. Along with an exhaustive review of published literature on the subjunctive, the book also includes a thorough discussion of the uses and meanings of the subjunctive as well as examples throughout drawn from linguistic corpora such as the CREA database. The book presents a comprehensive theory of the subjunctive and provides practical rules for understanding, teaching and acquiring the Spanish subjunctive.

Hans-Jörg Busch is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Delaware.

Introduction 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 What happens when you explain the use of the subjunctive (only) with generalizing semantic and pragmatic terms? Attempts to negate the meaning of the subjunctive The concept of assertion Newer studies that use the concept of assertion and related concepts to describe the meaning of the subjunctive The definition of assertion in this book Assertion and subordination in German Assertion and subordination in English The function or systematic grammatical meaning of the indicative, subjunctive and imperative moods in Spanish The formal distinction between indicative and subjunctive in Spanish The indicative The subjunctive The uses of the subjunctive in (pseudo) independent clauses The imperative The conditional The sequence of tenses of the subjunctive The grammatical function of dependent subjunctive clauses Noun clauses Verbs and expressions that are followed by the subjunctive in noun clauses Wishes and orders Opposition, prohibition,