#3984. The Indicative/subjunctive Mood Alternation with Adverbs of Doubt in Spanish

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Abstract:
This research aims to analyse the indicative and subjunctive mood alternation in Spanish sentences with adverbs of doubt. To this end, this study statistically analysed the linguistic and social factors conditioning the mood alternation in sentences with adverbs of doubt. Each datum was annotated with verb type, verb aspect, verb person, distance between the adverb and the verb, sex, age, region, and education level. To exclude confounding factors, multivariable logistic regression was conducted, and the analysis yielded significant odds ratios (ORs) for 10 items, including sex, region, education level, adverbs, aspect, and distance between the verb and the adverb. Furthermore, this study has shown that each adverb differs in the likelihood of co-occurring with the subjunctive, and that social factors of speakers affect the mood selection. Thus, an analysis of mood alternations should include social and linguistic factors.
Keywords:
Mood alternation; Spanish; adverbs of doubt; education level; social aspects

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