Library of Rassegna iberistica

Series | Library of Rassegna iberistica
Edited book | Geometric Explosion
Chapter | Los verbos de opinión con infinitivo en la lengua oral

Los verbos de opinión con infinitivo en la lengua oral

Abstract

From a Spanish-Italian contrastive point of view, the alternation of the subordinate verb between the finite and the infinitive form is particularly interesting. In order to determine the way the noun clauses are used in the case of a subject coreference, an analysis of the CREA oral corpus (1990-2000) helps to check the frequency of these forms of the subordinate verb and to verify if these uses are grammatical or acceptable. According to the results of the analysis, the use of <‘creo’ + finite form> represents 78% of the matches, <‘creo’ + infinite form> 22%. This last structure is normally used in formal register, as a politeness discourse strategy. Despite this low percentage, it is important to highlight that, in a pragmatic perspective, the substitution of the infinite with the finite form is not adequate, because the sentence weakens or loses its discourse and pragmatic function.    


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Language: it

Keywords Opinion verbs • Orality • Infinitive

Copyright © 2016 Felisa Bermejo Calleja. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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