Impersonal sentences: A Spanish-Italian contrastive study

Authors

  • Roberta Giordano Universidad de Viterbo
Keywords: Impersonal expressions, Italian, Spanish, Similarity, Difference, Spanish as Foreign Language

Abstract

One of the most complex aspects of Spanish syntax is represented by impersonal sentences. The effort to carry out a Spanish-Italian contrastive analysis of these sentences represents a possible answer to the challenge, for teachers of Spanish as a foreign language, of transmitting these expressions to Italian speaking students. In developing our discussion, we start from two interpretative proposals: that of José Joaquín Montes Giraldo, “Frase nominal, frase verbal y enunciados impersonales” (Thesaurus, XLI, 1986), and that of Luis Alberto Hernando Cuadrado, “Sobre la expresión de la impersonalidad” (Proceedings of the IV ASELE Congress, 1994). 

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Author Biography

Roberta Giordano, Universidad de Viterbo

Investigadora y docente de Lengua y traducción española de la Universidad de Viterbo.

Línea de investigación: Lingüística Aplicada a la Enseñanza de E/LE.

Published
03-12-2015
How to Cite
Giordano, R. (2015). Impersonal sentences: A Spanish-Italian contrastive study. Estudios Románicos, 24, 145–156. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/estudiosromanicos/article/view/245371