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The Redundant Object Pronoun in Contemporary Spanish
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Spanish LiteratureMultilingualismSpanish PragmaticsMorphology (Linguistics)Syntactic StructureLinguistic TheorySyntaxSpanish Second Language AcquisitionSpanish Cultural StudiesHispanic LinguisticsHistorical LinguisticsModern SpanishGrammarLanguage StudiesMorphologyComparative GrammarSpanish SyntaxRedundant Object PronounSpanishLinguisticsTheoretical Linguistics
Nowhere have I been able to find a full discussion of the redundant object pronoun in Modern Spanish. More specifically, rules for the concurrence of use and non-use in similar situations are extremely vague, if stated at all. The present study is an attempt to remedy this lack. These investigations are confined to printed texts. The method used is the sampling technique so successfully employed by Keniston in his Spanish Syntax List' and The Syntax of Castilianr Prose: the Sixteenth Century,2 to which subsequent scholars have been so deeply indebted. In the former work in particular, one will recall, the author was able to lay a great many syntactic ghosts which had been intimidating the groves of Academe for generations, and thus to put the study of Spanish syntax upon a more realistic basis.