Tense and Mood in Counterfactual Conditionals: The View from Spanish

Abstract

Counterfactual conditionals in Spanish are expressed using an additional layer of past tense –‘fake’ tense–and subjunctive mood. An analysis is developed in which each of these two pieces of morphology receives a uniform semantics independently motivated across the grammar: ‘Fake’ tense is analysed within the temporal remoteness line and subjunctive follows[Sch05]’s analysis of mood in complement clauses.