El uso variable de los pronombres sujetos en el castellano puertorriqueño hablado en Luisiana y Puerto Rico

The use of the pronominal subjects is one of the most basic foundations of the Spanish grammar. The Spanish language has an interesting ability: it is not an obligatory function to use the pronominal subjects. By the context and the conjugation of verbs that follow, the subject can be deduced. Many aspects of Spanish have been studied, including the use of the pronominal subjects relating to the null and expressed pronouns. The pronominal subjects can be null or you express, present or absent. The complete sentence in Spanish does not have to contain an expressed subject. Therefore, there is a variable use of the pronominal subjects in Spanish. This study focuses on identifying in which contexts the participants employ the expressed and null pronouns. It is a comparative study of twenty Puerto Ricans, ten women and ten men. Of the twenty, ten live in Louisiana and ten live in the island of Puerto Rico. 2,226 tokens were analyzed using the statistical analysis program Goldvarb. The pronominal rates found were 37.0% for the Puerto Ricans in Louisiana and y 37.8% for those in the island, which is representative of Caribbean Spanish. The results, in general, agree with what has been found before: that the internal factors play a very important part in the use of subject pronouns. Although the pronominal rates vary, the constraints conditioning the use of the pronoun subject have submitted results fairly uniform.

LSU Master’s Theses. 3876