A Study on the Formalization of English Subjunctive Mood
Xiaowei Guan · Theory and Practice in Language Studies · 2012
One of the main problems that affects the quality of machine translation is how to express the knowledge of language in precision.Subjunctive mood is a very common language phenomenon in English. From the perspective of E-C machine translation, and based on the theory of Semantic Element (SE) inUnified Linguistics, the paper discusses the specific formalization methods for each type of the English sentences with subjunctive mood and their Chinese translations.