O infinitivo (conxugado) galego e portugués e as súas correspondencias en español

• Main Author: Ignacio Vázquez Diéguez
• Format: Article
• Language: Catalan
• Published: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 2012-01-01
• Series: Estudos de Linguistica Galega
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=305626425007

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.