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Borja Alonso Pascua
Universidad de Salamanca
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0503-0359
Vol 29 (2023), Monográfico: El verbo en las lenguas románicas.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/moenia.id9156
Submitted: 19-04-2023 Accepted: 18-09-2023 Published: 17-11-2023
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Abstract

This paper analyses several cases of use of the indicative tenses as a substitute of the subjunctive mood in the European Spanish varieties. Using a bank of samples taken from the Audible Corpus of Spoken Rural Spanish, contexts are studied in which this bleaching is detected, as well as its core geographical area. The data point to Eastern Iberia as the zone with the highest concentration of occurrences. This behaviour is linked to the general subjunctive bleaching of other European languages for the purpose of outlining a geographical pattern that shows how the retention of this mood weakens as the focus approximates to Central Europe