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La posición del sujeto en la proposición subordinada

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The present study is aimed at describing the conditions which regulate the position of the lexical subject in some types of subordinated clause in Spanish. To achieve this, we examine existing studies about the positioning of the Spanish subject in independent sentences. After that we make a careful analysis of a corpus of written texts with regard to all subordinated clauses introduced by el cual (etc.), quien(es), cuando, donde and porque. We will try to determine to what extent the rules that operate in the independent sentence are valid for subordinated clauses. If necessary, we will formulate special conditions that are effective in these clauses.

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  1. Opleding Spaans, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, Erasmusplein 1, 6525, HT, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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Hallebeek, J. La posición del sujeto en la proposición subordinada. Neophilologus 86, 225–248 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014458300427

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