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“SE DESEA INFORMES”

Pages 25-27 | Published online: 22 Feb 2011
 

Abstract

Writing of the use of the pronoun se as subject in the construction known as the impersonal active, Sr. Gili y Gaya says: “La impersonal activa es moderna y frecuente en el habla usual”. The word “moderna” is apparently a relative term here, for a little further on (116) Sr. Gili y Gaya adds, though without quoting actual cases, that the construction began to increase in frequency “a medida que se fué consolidando el uso de la preposición a con acusativo de persona (hacia el siglo XV)”.

Notes

1 Curso superior de sintaxis española (5th ed., Barcelona 1955), 115.

1D. J. Gifford & F. W. Hodcroft, Textos lingüísticos del medioevo español (Oxford 1959), 210.

2 Grammaire des langues romanes (3rd ed., Paris 1876), III, 2S2.

3Note no. 106 to Andrés Bello's Gramática de la lengua castellana.

4f.87v. Cp., however, f.100v.; levaronlos a otra çerqua que era junta con esta, que se passava la una a la otra, et era de un pannyo de seda blanquo.

5Ed. R. Menéndez Pidal (Madrid 1955), II, 548b25-33. In the case of the first of these two verbs Ms. E has, according to Menéndez Pidal, “ ayuntauanse a cada. …”

1Cp. Levantes on pie Ojarra o Yéñego Ximenoiies in Cantar de Mio Cid 3442. V. also ibid. 146, 1828; and les uino muitos males in Liber Regum (ed. M. Serrano y Sanz, Boletín de la Real Academia Española, VI (1919), 202).

2For a possible 14th-eentury example of the impersonal active (el libro de las reglas commo se deue trobar) v. Sven Kärde, Quelques manières d'exprimer l'idée d'un sujet indéterminé ou général en espagnol (Uppsala 1943), 118. This work also contains arguments against the view that the impersonal se can be considered a subject (126-130). On this point v. also Félix Monge Casao, ‘Las frases pronominales de sentido impersonal en español’, Archivo de filología aragonesa, VIT (1955), 90 and, for the interesting se les citó por el dicho obispo (16th century). 71.

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