La supervivencia de deber de + infinitivo en el español moderno (ss. XVIII-XX)

Abstract

As part of a project on historical sociolinguistic based in the language of immediacy texts, data from this variationist analysis show how, despite the sharp decline in the uses of deber de + infinitive from the eighteenth century onwards, a number of linguistic and extralinguistic factors come together to stop a process that otherwise would have led to the final victory of the non-prepositional variant. Moreover, the study indicates the existence of a relative continuity with distributional patterns observed earlier in the classical period, that we have discussed elsewhere.