Abstract
AbstractIn this chapter, we provide a more in-depth discussion of the reasons why we do not adopt, at least not fully, some of the previous proposals. We discuss and raise semantic objections against a veridicality approach to mood choice. While veridicality has unquestionable syntactic and semantic effects, as well as morphological reflexes, we defend the position that it plays no role in distinguishing between subjunctive and indicative mood. On the basis of a close study of complementizers in the Balkan languages, we show that (some version of) veridicality does play a role in the selection of embedded clauses, in terms of presupposition. However, ultimately, this is not related to subjunctive selection per se.
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