MARÍA LAURA ESTEBAN SEGURA

Universidad de Málaga

Some notes on the implications for the history of English of the loss of the formal subjunctive

Sintaxis / Sintax

This paper deals with the implications that the loss of the forms of the subjunctive mood has had in the history of the English language. We will discuss how the gap left by this loss has been filled, that is, the mechanisms the language produced to solve the problem.

We will start by defining the concept of subjunctive, then we will look at its presence in the first stages of the English language (i.e. Old English), how it was conveyed during the Middle and Early Modern period, and how it is expressed in Present-Day English.




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