Hacia un prototipo de la tercera persona del plural no fórica en español

  1. María José Serrano Montesinos
Journal:
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics

ISSN: 1893-3211

Year of publication: 2025

Issue Title: Monographic topic: the syntax and semantic of subjects

Volume: 14

Issue: 1

Pages: 1-23

Type: Article

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Abstract

In Spanish, the non-phoric third person plural is a resource for defocusing the agent, instigator, experiencer, or initiator of the action. The non-identification of a referent, and the fact that if it is recovered it is of a diffuse nature, makes these constructions an efficient and clear resource for impersonality or desubjectivization. In any case, the inferable referent of the third person plural is a non-referential human subject that excludes the speaker and the interlocutor or audience. It is a resource for desubjectivation associated with the loss of the full referentiality of the subject. One of the features that conditions the non-phoric interpretation is the presence of a human participant, agent, experiencer, or instigator in the third-person construction. This participation can be realized not only through a subject but also through an object represented by an agreement morpheme or clitic. The non-phoric third person plural has traditionally been classified according to different semantic-pragmatic values. However, in this research we present an analysis based on the cognitive prototype model theory. Thus, it is presented a gradual prototypical classification which includes the prototype and the peripherical variants. In such a model various linguistic and textual elements are involved, such as the co-occurrence of agreement morphemes, as well as the verbal tense and aspect

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