While many Spanish verbs require a specific preposition in front of a noun or infinitive, others don't - even when a preposition is needed in the English equivalent.
A verbal periphrasis (perífrasis verbal) is a grammatical structures composed of two or more verbs that take on a new meaning when used together. Generally they are formed with a conjugated auxiliary and a main verb in the infinitive, participle or geru
When speaking or writing Spanish, verbs usually need to be conjugated, but there are several constructions that require the infinitive itself. As a noun An infinitive can be the subject of a sentence: Mentir no es buena idea.Lying is not a good idea. ...
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The present study analyzes a syntactic phenomenon of Paraguayan Spanish, the use of the preposition en 'in' with verbs of movement, such as voy en el mercado (I'm going in the market) 'I'm going to the market'. The data collected from Paraguay indicates that this particular feature is...
Number-inflecting Ns combine in syntax with a well-known relational head: the preposition. However, in a compound such as avión espía a preposition does not mediate the merge between the members (avión de espía)—in such a case we would have a phrase, not a compound—so the functional...
When it comes to vaya + N/A/Adv, however, we find subdialects that require que and others that dispense with it. In other words, the form of the exclamative particle determines the possibility of having an accompanying que below the exclamative phrase in these varieties. The evidence further...
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Verbs that operate in the same wayasgustarare sometimes known asdefective verbs, orverbos defectivos, but that term also has other meanings, so it isn't used often. When used in this way, such verbs require anindirect object pronoun. The indirect object pronouns areme("to me"),te("to ...
In addition toque, the standard of comparison can also be introduced by the prepositionde. I will refer to these asde-comparatives. An immediate question is whethermás…decomparatives exhibit the same syntactic properties as theirquecounterparts. I will show that, while they do, there are import...