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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Herrera Morera, Gisselle
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Costa Rica
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/9053
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/letras/article/view/9053
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:personal infinitive
adverbial clauses
typological analysis
Spanish in Central America
infinitivo personal
oraciones adverbiales
análisis tipológico
español de Centroamérica
adverbial clases
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Sumario: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.