ABSTRACT
The data analyzed by De Sterck shows clearly that mood variation in the kind of noun clauses that she studied is subject to the same semantic and pragmatic mechanisms in all varieties of Spanish. Borrego et al. shows convincingly that mood use is not dictated unilaterally by certain verbs in the main clause, but that one has to consider the meaning of the entire main clause and that there is interplay between its meaning and the meaning of the two moods which contribute to the overall meaning of a sentence. Fukushima describes what he calls the 'predicate theory' according to which the 'mood of the subordinate verb is determined by the meaning of the predicate verb, adjective or noun, neglecting the influence of the head of the clause hecho, due to its poor meaning substance'. According to the authors of the NGLE, the tense of the dependent predicate has an influence on the mood choice as well.
