Uwagi o subjunktiwie włoskim [Osservazioni sul congiuntivo italiano]

The subjunctive mood, a Latin inheritance in Romance languages, is much more developped in Italian than in other languages of this group and is a part of the irrealis modality. Italian grammatical tradition distinguishes the following subjunctive values: volitive (deontic), dubitative (epistemic) and factive - thematic . The author applies Givòn’s scale of irrealis in world languages , which goes from ‘ low certainty‘ (corresponding to epistemic modality) to ‘weak manipulation‘ (referring to deontic/valutative modality) sub-modes , to show how, in Italian, these modal-semantic values form a coherent continuum occupied by the subjunctive. This framework accounts also for the factivethematic subjunctive which represents a sort of modal conflict: while the verb of the main clause has a valuative function present in deontic modality (hence modus irrealis) , the verb in subordinate clause refers to past presupposed events (hence modus realis). The subjunctive in such subordinate presupposed

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