Analogías entre el papel del artículo y de la preposición "de" en el caso de las subordinadas sujeto y objeto en español

Abstract

In Spanish, the use of a preposition to introduce a subordinate clause serving as an objectis possible under certain conditions, such as the presence of a prepositional verb in the matrix clause.As regards to the use of de, studies on queismo and dequeismo discuss a number of usage errors.At the same time, a comparison of the lists given in prescriptive grammars shows that these lists do notalways match up and that the use of the preposition is said to be optional with some verbs. Amongstthem, there are however controlled and non-controlled cases. The former can be explained by the samesyntactico-semantic hypothesis that applies to the use of the definite article to introduce a subordinatesubject clause.