The basic inflectional structure of verbs (I): aspect, tense, mood and agreement

• Autores: Ramón F. Zacarías Ponce de León
• Localización: The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology / coord. por Antonio Fábregas Alfaro, Víctor Acedo Matellán, Grant Amstrong, María Cristina Cuervo, Isabel Pujol Payet, 2021, ISBN 978-0-429-31819-1, págs. 113-128
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter provides a detailed description of the verbal inflection of Spanish. It examines the general problem that has always been the segmentation of the verbal words given the lack of correspondence between the grammatical categories and the formal marks that can be segmented. The inflectional morphology of the Spanish verb exhibits irregular behaviours that make difficult to analyse. It is a fusional morphology that also shows vowel changes at the base as well as alternations in the conjugation of paradigms. The structure of the Spanish verb is complex because several morphosyntactic categories associated with it are recognized, which, in addition, are amalgamated into different segments. The chapter analyses each of these inflectional meanings and their expression within the verbal word. Verb structure has always been divided into two parts: the root or lexical morpheme and the inflectional morphemes. The grammatical category of mood indicates the way in which the action is carried out from the subjectivity of the speaker.