Estructuras con posesivo y sustantivos relacionales humanos en gallego y portugués europeo. Semejanzas y diferencias en una evolución común
ISSN: 2663-9815
Year of publication: 2021
Issue Title: The interlinguistic space in the Romance continuum: convergences and divergences between the Ibero-Romance and Gallo-Romance areas
Issue: 6
Pages: 16-44
Type: Article
More publications in: Studia linguistica romanica
Abstract
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the article generalization process in nominal phrases with human relational nouns in Galician and European Portuguese. After reviewingliterature proposing various explanations of the advance of the article in structures with possessives in general, and with kinship names more specifically, the approach of Labrousse (2020) isadopted to study this phenomenon in European Portuguese. Data for this analysis are provided bythe TILG corpus of contemporary Galician. Based on observations of the behavior of these structures in Galician, conclusions are drawn about the relevance of variables connected to syntacticfunction (prepositional versus non-prepositional), number, gender, person and type of relationship.The comparison of the data from European Portuguese and Galician shows that the article generalization process is earlier and older in the former language.