Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1 Purpose and scope of this book -- 2 About the empiric material and the examples used in this book -- 3 Overview of the subjunctive literature -- 4 The subjunctive: an expression of modality -- 5 The subjunctive: the morphosyntactic manifestation of mood -- 6 Attempts to define the meaning of the subjunctive -- 6.1 What happens when you explain the use of the subjunctive (only) with generalizing semantic and pragmatic terms? -- 6.2 Attempts to negate the meaning of the subjunctive -- 6.3 The concept of assertion -- 6.4 Newer studies that use the concept of assertion and related concepts to describe the meaning of the subjunctive -- 6.5 The defi nition of assertion in this book -- 6.6 Assertion and subordination in German -- 6.7 Assertion and subordination in English -- 7 The function or systematic grammatical meaning of the indicative, subjunctive and imperative moods in Spanish -- 7.1 The formal distinction between indicative and subjunctive in Spanish -- 7.2 The indicative -- 7.3 The subjunctive -- 7.4 The uses of the subjunctive in (pseudo) independent clauses -- 7.5 The imperative -- 7.6 The conditional -- 8 The sequence of tenses of the subjunctive -- 9 The grammatical function of dependent subjunctive clauses -- 9.1 Noun clauses -- 9.1.1 Verbs and expressions that are followed by the subjunctive in noun clauses -- 9.1.1.1 Wishes and orders -- 9.1.1.2 Opposition, prohibition, denial, doubt -- 9.1.1.2.1 Negative modifi ers in the main clause -- 9.1.1.2.2 The role of interrogation in the main clause -- 9.1.1.2.3 The role of auxiliary verbs -- 9.1.1.3 Cause, explanation, justification, motif, origin, reason, consequence, tendency -- 9.1.1.4 Intermediate and impersonal expressions of influence, preference, permission, concession, admission, possibility, necessity, frequency, etc