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Past Tenses: Passato Prossimo & Imperfetto

Perfect with avere/essere, imperfect, and when to use each
Il congiuntivo: teoria
The subjunctive: theory
mood selection
Theoretical accounts of mood choice
Congiuntivo nelle completive
Subjunctive in complement clauses
verbs selecting subjunctive
Which predicates require subjunctive
Indicativo vs congiuntivo: opposizione
Indicative vs subjunctive: opposition
credo che sia / so che è
Semantic basis of the contrast
Congiuntivo e modalità
Subjunctive and modality
epistemic vs evaluative triggers
Modality underlying subjunctive use
Il congiuntivo in declino?
Is the subjunctive declining?
spoken vs written use
Sociolinguistic debate on subjunctive loss
Periodo ipotetico: analisi
Conditional sentences: analysis
three types in depth
Detailed analysis of conditional structures
Subordinate implicite
Implicit (non-finite) clauses
infinitive/gerund subordination
Reducing finite clauses to non-finite
Gerundio: temporale, causale, modale
Gerund: temporal, causal, modal
uses of the gerund
Adverbial functions of the gerund
Concordanza dei tempi al congiuntivo
Sequence of tenses (subjunctive)
subjunctive tense agreement
Matching subjunctive tense to context
Discorso indiretto: analisi
Indirect speech: analysis
tense, mood, deixis shifts
Systematic changes in reported speech