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In the Spanish-speaking and Italian-speaking linguistic panorama, the subjunctive has been defined mainly from a structural perspective based on the notion of syntactic dependency. From the 19th century became relevant the semantic approach, and the notions of reality / unreality began to predominate in the definition of mode. However, many bibliographic sources such as Vásquez (2013), Stewart (2002) and Haverkate (2002), have revealed that the use of the subjunctive is not only limited to the appearance of a modalizer of possibility, imaginary, or potential fact, but that the intention of the speaker and the presence of inducers without any unreality value can introduce inexplicable forms of the subjunctive from a perspective purely semantic or clearly syntactic. The objective of this paper is to identify the main distributions of the subjunctive in Spanish and Italian. Contrastive, exploratory, descriptive, and documentary analysis is limited to epistemic and deontic completive propositions, relative sentences and adverbial subordinate clauses, given space limitations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, two speech comunities from the Universidad de Antioquia are compared: the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Engineering. A qualitative metodology supported by surveys is used for this purpose. This metodology allows for a detailed analysis of the morfological, pragmatic and semantic features observed in the nominal address formulas (NFA) used by the speakers. In order to analize and compare the information, an emphasis in the lexical families and axiological modalities is made. This method is supported by approaches to the construction of Spanish words proposed by Mervyn Lang, Manuel Casado and Ramón Almena, and also by the studies related to NFA made by Norma Carricaburo. The following phenomena may be found as results of this study: shortening, derivation, diphthongation, appreciative suffixation, and modality/meaning incoherence, among others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]