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Neophilologus (2007) 91:407421
DOI 10.1007/s11061-007-9034-3
Julia G. Solomon
Received: 8 August 2005 / Accepted: 25 October 2005 / Published online: 27 March 2007 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Abstract This paper examines the history and use of the future subjunctive tense in Spanish. Although there is much discourse about the future subjunctive, at this point the only thing that linguists can agree on is that the tense does not exist in the language today and that it came from a combination of the future perfect of the Latin indicative and the present perfect of the Latin subjunctive. The traditional uses of the tense and the reasons for its disappearance remain debatable. Thus, this paper proposes the hypothesis that the future subjunctive has always been a written, not spoken tense. Originating as an error in translation from Latin, it has never had autonomous functions and has always been in competition with other tenses. This indicates that the use of the future subjunctive in writing is generally a deliberate choice on the part of the writer to emphasize words or phrases. Without the conscious intervention of writers, the future subjunctive tense probably would have disappeared from the Spanish language completely some time ago, and may very well disappear in the future.
Keywords Spanish Subjunctive Grammar Future tense Linguistics Historical linguistics Latin Proto-Indo-European Romance languages Future subjunctive
Este trabajo quiere explicar la prdida casi completa del futuro de subjuntivo en espaol. Se examina el proto-indoeuropeo, el latn, y otras lenguas romances y su morfologa para ver por qu este tiempo ha desaparecido y si hubo un momento en la historia en el que haba una razn legtima para su existencia.
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El futuro de subjuntivo en espaol Su historia: su situacin, y su futuro
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Proto-indoeuropeo, latn, y otras lenguas romances
El futuro del subjuntivo en espaol no tena un predecesor directo en el protoindoeuropeo, pero es posible extrapolar cmo evolucion el tiempo del paradigma subjuntivo. Tal como se ha reconstruido, el proto-indoeuropeo no tena un tiempo del futuro del indicativo. Aunque haba una morfologa muy rica, el futuro del indicativo no exista y se usaba el subjuntivo para expresar situaciones de futuro (Humez,...