Universal 1921:
- Original
- It seems that all languages with subjunctive complements can use subjunctives as main clauses (though the reverse may not be true).
- Standardized
- IF subjunctives are used in the complement clauses, THEN they can also be used in main clauses.
- Keywords
- mood, subjunctive, complementation
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages surveyed in Noonan 1985
- Source
- Noonan 1985: 54
- Counterexamples
Main clause subjunctives tend to be used in modal, hortative, or imperative senses.