The Weight of Age in the Use of the Imperfect and Pluperfect Subjunctive (-ra/-se)

• Autor: Samamé Rispa, Anahís
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2021
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/23842
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/lexis/article/view/23842
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Variación morfológica; Variable; Castellano; Lima; Morphological variation; Spanish

This paper focuses on analyzing the use of the imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive -ra/-se in the Spanish spoken in Lima from a variational perspective. From a sample of university speakers of three age groups (young, adults and older), it is proposed to determine if -ra is displacing -se, for which it will be analyzed if the election of one or another variant is conditioned by age. It is concluded that the use of -ra exceeds that of -se in the sample studied. Likewise, it is found that while young people prefer more -ra than adults and older people, the later ones use more -se, which confirms that one form is displacing the other in the Spanish of Lima.