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- Title
El castellano entre las lenguas romances de la Península Ibérica:la historia de la formación de los tiempos compuestos.
- Authors
Berta, Tibor
- Abstract
The aim of this present article is to contribute to the study of the evolution of compound tenses in Spanish by collocating it in the Iberian Romance context. We examined whether the process of the gradual decline of the participle agreement in transitive verbs and the use of the auxiliary 'ser' (be) in intransitive ones show parallelisms in the three representative Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula. The analysis of an old trilingual corpus consisting Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish texts shows that the Spanish ones, as early as the fifteenth century, show the innovation of not matching the participle and that it also maintains the use of 'ser' in the perfect of intransitive verbs, while the other two languages still preserve the state they had in the Middle Ages. The data indicates that the two processes are not strictly correlated and that Spanish overtook the neighboring peninsular languages only in the case of removing the concordance.
- Subjects
COMPOUND words; ROMANCE languages; HISTORICAL linguistics; COMPARATIVE linguistics; MORPHOSYNTAX; ABSOLUTE constructions (Grammar); CATALAN language; PORTUGUESE language
- Publication
Colindancias: Revista de la Red Regional de Hispanistas de Hungría, Rumanía y Serbia, 2013, Issue 4, p325
- ISSN
2067-9092
- Publication type
Article