Analysis of impersonal constructions in Spanish and in French

ISBN-13: 9786206526612 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str.

Carina Wintersteller

Opis

This paper is a study devoted to the expression of impersonality in Spanish and French. The main objective is to detect differences between the two languages when expressing impersonality. Not all the possible linguistic resources for expressing impersonality in both languages have been treated, but the following constructions have been dealt with: the periphrastic passive, the reflexive passive, impersonals with se and other phenomena relevant to the topic. In French, only the voix passive, the pronominal impersonnel and the pronoun on have been analyzed. After the presentation of all the constructions, a comparison between the two languages has been made. The practical part consists of the analysis of a corpus of 120 collected abstracts, 61 of which are in French and 59 in Spanish. The analysis has been carried out on the basis of different guidelines, but the main objective will be to verify the hypotheses put forward in the comparative part.

O autorze

Carina Wintersteller was born in 1993 in Salzburg (Austria). She started her studies (Spanish and French Philology) at the University of Salzburg in 2012. In 2015 she studied a course at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2018 he finished his studies at the University of Salzburg. He wrote the present paper with Professor Bernhard Pöll as a tutor.