O infinitivo (conxugado) galego e portugués e as súas correspondencias en español
This paper presents a comparative study of the infinitive in Galician, Portuguese and Spanish. Galician and Portuguese possess a kind of person-marking infinitive which does not exist in Spanish and will therefore be given special attention here. Diachronic linguistics forms the basis of this resear...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Catalan |
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Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Estudos de Linguistica Galega |
| Online Access: | http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=305626425007 |
| Summary: | This paper presents a comparative study of the infinitive in Galician, Portuguese and Spanish. Galician and Portuguese possess a kind of person-marking infinitive which does not exist in Spanish and will therefore be given special attention here. Diachronic linguistics forms the basis of this research since it accounts for present-day use. The personal infinitive primarily appears in subordinate clauses. Each of its uses will be illustrated with examples from various consolidated on-line corpora. We will compare standard prescribed usage with instances of actual use, and discuss their Spanish translations. Although its main purpose is to serve as a guide for students, the study aims to establish functional principles of syntactic structure (not only stylistic factors) affecting the use of the personal infinitive in Galician and Portuguese. |
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| ISSN: | 1889-2566 1989-578X |