Las construcciones impersonales de sujeto suprimido del gascón.

  1. Fernández Fernández, Beatriz 1
  2. Berro Urrizelki, Ane 2
  3. Suïls Subirà, Jordi 3
  1. 1 Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU)
  2. 2 Universidad de Deusto
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    Universidad de Deusto

    Bilbao, España

    ROR https://ror.org/00ne6sr39

  3. 3 Universitat de Lleida
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    Universitat de Lleida

    Lleida, España

    ROR https://ror.org/050c3cw24

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Journal:
Estudios románicos
  1. Martos Sánchez, Josep Lluís (coord.)
  2. Martínez Pérez, Antonia (coord.)

ISSN: 0210-4911

Year of publication: 2024

Issue Title: Poesía medieval e imprenta antigua : de la catalogación y estudio de las fuentes a la fijación crítica de los textos (Medieval poetry and ancient printing : from the cataloging and study of sources to the critical fixation of texts)

Issue: 33

Pages: 319-335

Type: Article

DOI: 10.6018/ER.577581 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDIGITUM editor

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Abstract

In this article we explore the pronominal construction with an undetermined subject in Gascon (Romieu, Bianchi 2005), which involves the se clitic. This construction could be considered passive, and in turn, the se clitic could be thought as an intransitivizer. Alternatively, this construction could be also regarded as an impersonal with a suppressed subject (Blevins 2003). This is actually the hypothesis that we put forward in this paper. As we will show, the implicit subject of the pronominal construction in Gascon is both semantically and syntactically present and, consequently, this configuration could be typified together with not only other se/si constructions in Romance languages like Italian (Cinque 1988), Catalan (Bartra 2002; Fernández, Berro, Pérez Saldanya in press) and Spanish (Mendikoetxea 1999; Ormazabal, Romero 2019) among others, but also with other constructions in genetically non-related languages such as Basque impersonals (Ortiz de Urbina 2003; Fernández, Berro 2021; Berro, Odria, Fernández 2022).

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La primera y segunda autoras de este artículo han recibido financiación del Gobierno Vasco gracias al proyecto IT1439-22.

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