Sujetos colectivos y concordancia verbal: Un estudio de frecuencias, semántica y sintaxis

• Autores: Yolanda Fernández Pena
• Localización: RAEL: revista electrónica de lingüística aplicada, ISSN 1885-9089, Vol. 16, Nº. 1, 2017, págs. 70-84
• Idioma: español
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  • español

    En este artículo se presenta un estudio de corpus que pretende arrojar luz sobre los patrones de concordancia de los sujetos colectivos complejos (también llamados aquí Ncol of Npl) y, en particular, sobre la influencia que el sintagma preposicional (of Npl) ejerce en ellos. Para ello, se han tenido en cuenta factores sintácticos, como la morfología del Npl y la complejidad y distancia sintácticas, así como factores semánticos como el carácter animado del referente del Npl. Los resultados de esta investigación ponen de relevancia la importancia de dichos factores. De este modo, se comprueba que la morfología plural del Npl favorece un mayor porcentaje de formas verbales plurales si no está marcada morfológicamente, como también es el caso de los Npl con referentes animados. La complejidad y la distancia sintácticas, por el contrario, muestran una tendencia diferente, con una menor incidencia de formas verbales plurales.

  • English

    This paper presents a corpus-based study which sheds light on the agreement patterns of complex collective subjects (also called here Ncol of Npl) and, in particular, on the influence that the prepositional phrase (of Npl) exerts on those patterns. To this end, I have explored syntactic factors, such as the morphological realisation of the Npl as well as syntactic complexity and syntactic distance, and semantic factors such as the animacy of the referent of Npl. The results of this investigation demonstrate the relevance of these factors: the overtly-marked plurality of Npl favours a higher rate of plural verbal forms in contrast to those instances where Npl show non-overtly-marked plurality. The same trend is also found with animate versus inanimate referents of Npl. Syntactic complexity and syntactic distance, by contrast, show a different tendency, as they tend to correlate with a lower incidence of plural verbal forms

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