On the Use of make to vs. make ø in Early English Medical Writing

  1. Calle Martín, Javier
  2. Romero Barranco, Jesús
Revista:
Atlantis: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos

ISSN: 0210-6124

Año de publicación: 2015

Volumen: 37

Número: 1

Páginas: 157-177

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

En las cláusulas de objeto no finitas, el infinitivo puede aparecer marcado (+TO) o no marcado (-TO). Desde una perspectiva histórica, el Inglés Antiguo prefiere el infinitivo sin to, aunque el número de ejemplos es aún bastante escaso. En Inglés Medio se observa, no obstante, un cambio de tendencia que hace que la forma marcada comience a desplazar progresivamente a la variante no marcada. Como resultado de la tendencia anterior, los verbos tuvieron que adaptarse a uno u otro patrón dada la imposibilidad de conservar ambas alternativas. El verbo make, sin embargo, conservó los dos tipos de infinitivo hasta principios del período moderno. A la luz de lo anterior, el presente estudio pretende investigar la construcción make + to vs. make + ø en un corpus de inglés médico con los siguientes objetivos: (a) analizar la distribución de ambas construcciones en el período 1350-1700; (b) clasificar los ejemplos según la tipología del texto; y (c) comprobar la influencia de los siguientes factores en la elección del tipo de infinitivo: (i) la presencia de constituyentes entre el verbo principal y la cláusula objeto; (ii) la complejidad de dicho constituyente; y (iii) la morfología del verbo principal. Los datos del presente estudio proceden del Corpus of Early English Medical Writing.

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