The Personal Infinitive in Adverbial Clauses in Central American Spanish
This paper describes and analyzes, from a typological-functional perspective, personal infinitive structures in adverbial clauses introduced by a preposition + pronoun subject + infinitive [PSpI] in Central American Spanish to show that although there is not a trend to use this structure in this var...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2015 |
| Country: | Costa Rica |
| Institution: | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica |
| Repository: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/9053 |
| Online Access: | https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/letras/article/view/9053 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | personal infinitive adverbial clauses typological analysis Spanish in Central America infinitivo personal oraciones adverbiales análisis tipológico español de Centroamérica adverbial clases |
| Summary: | This paper describes and analyzes, from a typological-functional perspective, personal infinitive structures in adverbial clauses introduced by a preposition + pronoun subject + infinitive [PSpI] in Central American Spanish to show that although there is not a trend to use this structure in this variety, it is an emerging phenomenon that could increase. |
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