1. Un nuevo análisis de la construcción ser de + infinitivo en español europeo y americano.
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GUTIÉRREZ RODRÍGUEZ, EDITA and PÉREZ OCÓN, PILAR
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CONSTRUCTION grammar , *INFINITIVAL constructions , *MODALITY (Linguistics) , *SPANISH language , *SOCIAL interaction , *PASSIVE voice , *CORPORA ,SPANISH dialects - Abstract
In this work, we study the linguistic variation of the ser de + infinitive construction with passive interpretation (Eso es de aplaudir) with examples taken from CORPES and Corpus del Español (Mark Davies). The consultation of both corpora has allowed us to confirm that the construction not only has more vitality in American Spanish, but that it presents two uncommon variants in European Spanish: it appears with accusative clitic (Eso es de aplaudirlo) and with the particle se (Eso es de admirarse). We will argue that this behavior responds to two different analyses: a passive one, which would explain the absence of a direct complement in general Spanish or the presence of particle se in some American varieties, and an impersonal active one (present mostly in Central America), which would in turn justify the presence of the accusative clitic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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