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Discontinuity of the Spanish Conjunctive Pronoun

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Dwight L. Bolinger
Dwight L. Bolinger*
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University of Southern California
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It is a commonplace that the Spanish conjunctive pronoun has more than one possible position with respect to a series of interdependent verbs. Constructions of the type Lo quiero ver ~ Quiero verlo, Lo estoy viendo ~ Estoy viéndolo, Lo vamos a tratar de hacer ~ Vamos a tratarlo de hacer ~ Vamos a tratar de hacerlo are of everyday occurrence; they have been counted and to some extent classified by Keniston.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 25 , Issue 3: July-September , September 1949, pp. 253 - 260
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Copyright © 1949 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Hayward Keniston, Spanish syntax list; New York, 1937.

2 Spanish syntax list §10.73 and §10.75.

3 Spanish syntax list §10.61 and §10.72.

4 Thanks are due to Professor R. M. Duncan and to his class in Spanish syntax at the University of Southern California in the summer of 1946, for collecting the material; to my Spanish-speaking colleagues for patiently answering many questions; and especially to Mrs. Betty Haeber Maynor for collating the material.

5 Spanish syntax list §10.65.

6 Antonio Heras, Vorágine sin fondo 103 (Madrid, 1936).

7 Ibid. 26.

8 Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Legends, tales, and poems 107 (New York, 1907).

9 Ibid. 131.

10 Pío Baroja, Zalacaín el aventurero 169 (Madrid, 1920).

11 Ibid. 155.

12 Alfonso Toro, Compendio de historia de México 185 (México, D. F., 1933).

13 Jorge Isaacs, María 154 (Buenos Aires, 1943).

14 Ciro Alegría, La serpiente de oro 122 (Santiago de Chile, 1936).

15 Syntax of Castilian prose: The sixteenth century §10.761 (Chicago, 1937).

16 Antonio Heras, op.cit. 166.

17 Pedro A. de Alarcón, El sombrero de tres picos 18 (New York, 1907).

18 T. Navarro Tomás, Fonología española 113 (Syracuse, 1946).

19 Personal letter from a Mexican, 1947.

20 Hoy, 25 Oct. 1947, p. 6 (México, D. F.).

21 Antonio Heras, El laberinto de los espejos 121 (Madrid, 1928).

22 Augusto D'Halmar, in Algunos cuentos chilenos 48 (ed. Armando Donoso; Buenos Aires, 1943).

23 Armando Donoso, op.cit. 13.