Concordancia plural en verbos construidos con cláusulas de infinitivo como sujeto¿un caso de cosubordinación central?
- 1 Universidad de Jaén (España)
ISSN: 0717-1285, 0718-5758
Year of publication: 2023
Issue: 59
Pages: 198-228
Type: Article
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Abstract
This paper focuses on the description and analysis of an anomalous or non-normative plural agreement phenomenon that certain Spanish verbs, named “terciopersonal” o “pseu-dopersonal” in the literature, present when combined with an infinitive clause whose verb selects a plural NP as its direct object (Te cuestan hacer las tareas más fáciles ‘It's hard for you to do the easiest tasks’). After describing the phenomenon, we show that the finite verb does not present all the characteristics that are usually attributed to auxiliaries and we defend that the theory of nexus and junctures proposed in role and reference grammar is a useful analytical tool in order to account for the structures under study.