The Spanish subjunctive mood and its English correspondences
[EN] Corpus-based contrastive studies have successfully addressed the empirical study of crosslinguistic similarities and differences and may also contribute to understanding complexity across languages. This paper aims at (dis)proving whether the Spanish subjunctive mood shows greater complexity th...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de León |
| Repositorio: | BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:buleria.unileon.es:10612/25150 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/lic.00034.ram https://hdl.handle.net/10612/25150 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Lenguas Lengua inglesa Lingüística Traducción e interpretación Complexity measures English/Spanish Parallel corpus Subjunctive mood Word-alignment metri 5701.13 Lingüística Aplicada a la Traducción E Interpretación 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas |
| Sumario: | [EN] Corpus-based contrastive studies have successfully addressed the empirical study of crosslinguistic similarities and differences and may also contribute to understanding complexity across languages. This paper aims at (dis)proving whether the Spanish subjunctive mood shows greater complexity than its English correspondences as translations or sources of the Spanish subjunctive forms. It also explores a trade-off between language levels, i.e., whether higher morphological complexity is linked to syntactic and lexical complexity. The data come from a bidirectional English-Spanish corpus, and the word-alignment-based metric system has been used to quantify morphological complexity. Syntactic and lexical complexity were also investigated and computed using tests of statistical significance. Results corroborate that Spanish presents higher complexity in this verbal area in all three levels, morphological, syntactic, and lexical: the hypothesized trade-off between higher morphological complexity on the one hand, and lower syntactic and lexical complexity on the other is not validated by our data. |
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