Future tense as the imperative in northwestern Catalan: a higher degree in the futurity/obligation confluence

• Autores: Olga Cubells Bartolomé, Xavier Rull i Muruzàbal
• Localización: Rivista Italiana di Studi Catalani, ISSN 2279-8781, Nº. 3, 2013, págs. 155-167
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Catalan can express orders through the future tense (Tancaràs la finestra!).

    Any unstressed pronouns need to be added before the future verb form (La finestra, ja la tancaràs). However, in northwestern areas, unstressed pronouns can be added after the future when it is used as an imperative (La finestra està oberta: quan marxis, tancaràs-la); this is the so-called futur d’imperació. This syntactic order in the future tense (verb plus pronoun) is unusual in other regions. It may be a higher degree in the process that allows the expression of the ‘obligatory’ sense using the future tense.