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6 - Agreement/Concordancia

from Part I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

R. E. Batchelor
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
Miguel Ángel San José
Affiliation:
Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
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Below is a piece of Spanish illustrating, in a limited way, how agreement between nouns and verbs, and adjectives and nouns, functions. Relevant words/parts of words are shown in bold.

Casi la mitad de los alumnos salieron temprano en el autobús; la mayoría llevaba chubasquero y paraguas, porque, a pesar de que un poco antes una infinidad de estrellas titilaban (sparkled) en el cielo, el amanecer auguraba tormentas, y todos temían que la excursión terminara pasada por agua. El grupo de alumnos iba afectado, temiendo pasar el día bajo la lluvia o el granizo, hasta que uno de ellos logró animar el viaje sacando una vieja armónica y comenzando a tocar alegres melodías, consigu que los compañeros relajaran el ánimo, y a poco, se elevaron las canciones por encima del ruido del desvencijado (worn out) motor.

(Treatment of agreement appears throughout this book. For example, gender and number are analyzed in Part II; verbs and agreement of endings according to the subject receive attention in Part III; tenses according to the coincidence of main and subordinate clauses are also dealt with in Part III; and agreement of adjectives with nouns are examined in Parts VI and VIII. Nevertheless, at the risk of a slight overlap between the present chapter and other chapters in the book, it seems helpful to deal in a general way with the concept of agreement between various grammatical accidences since it is a fundamental feature of all Romance languages, and Spanish is no exception.)

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Print publication year: 2010

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