In this paper, we examine the most relevant syntactic-textual similarities and differences between interrogative infinitives in Spanish and in French. In order to do so, we analyse two corpora consisting of 250 texts, basing our criteria on previous studies and own observations. The results of our study contribute to contrastive linguistics, particularly to the syntactic-textual studies of the independent infinitives in both languages. Our results indicate that the most important similarities are that 85% of both corpora are partial interrogative infinitives. Besides, more than 70% of these partial interrogative infinitives appear in the titles and sub-titles of different jussive texts. The most relevant difference is that in the French corpus we found a greater significant quantity of interrogative infinitives than in the Spanish corpus.
Keywords:
infinitivos independientes, infinitivos interrogativos, análisis contrastivo, sintaxis, lingüística del texto
Quintero Ramírez, S. (2018). CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF INTERROGATIVE INFINITIVES IN FRENCH AND SPANISH FROM A SYNTACTIC TEXTUAL PERSPECTIVE. Lenguas Modernas, (49), Pág. 137 – 156. Retrieved from https://actabioethica.uchile.cl/index.php/LM/article/view/49230
