Un caso de variación morfonológica en la historia del español boliviano: las formas de infinitivo + pronombre en el alto Perú (siglos XVI-XVII)

Abstract

The existing variation in the use of the infinitive + pronoun (amarle/amalle) in GoldenAge Spanish is a phenomena that is noted much more than it is dealt with by scholars. It istrue that in all the historical manuals about Spanish the mentioned variation is noted but, generallyspeaking, the description goes no farther than a mere citation, or, at best, gives a few dispersednotes about it. Bearing this in mind, in this article we seek to develop an analysis of theuse of the two variant forms of infinitive + pronoun—with and without the palatalization—in agroup of colonial documents from the western part of what makes up Bolivia today. Our purposeit to describe not only the chronology of its use in the area, but, more importantly, to setforth the criteria that can determine the appearance of one possibility or the other.