The Imperfect Subjunctive in Chilean Spanish: Is There Free Alternation between -ra and -se Desinences?

Authors

  • María Natalia Castillo Fadi´c Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Enrique Sologuren Insúa Universidad de los Andes (Chile)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.42.09

Keywords:

The imperfect subjunctive, alternation of -ra and -se variants, Chilean Spanish variant, lexical statistics

Abstract

This article studies desinences found in the imperfect subjunctive in Chilean Spanish, by means of the statistical description of -ra and -se verb endings that appear in the Corpus Básico del Español de Chile (Castillo Fadi´c, 2012). Through the analysis of different variables, and based on computational linguistics, corpus linguistics and lexical-statistical tools, we intend to define if these desinences, considered as variants of the same morphological variable, alternate freely or correlate with other variables. Results show the existence of a correlation between the morphological variable studied in the article and the textual world. In addition, grammatical and lexical-semantic factors that may influence on the choice of one or another variant are explored; it would be necessary to study these in depth considering a larger sample.

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Author Biographies

María Natalia Castillo Fadi´c, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Departamento de Ciencias del Lenguaje, Facultad de Letras, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. 

Enrique Sologuren Insúa, Universidad de los Andes (Chile)

Instituto de Literatura, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades.

Published

2018-12-31

How to Cite

Castillo Fadi´c, M. N., & Sologuren Insúa, E. (2018). The Imperfect Subjunctive in Chilean Spanish: Is There Free Alternation between -ra and -se Desinences?. Onomázein, (42), 153–171. https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.42.09

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