Study of the clitic pronouns le / les use with plural referent in a written corpus from the Argentina NEA region

Abstract

The aim of this research is to study the use of the clitic pronouns le / les with plural referent of [+human] feature, in a written corpus of university students from the Argentina NEA region. Given that the invariability “le for les” (frequent in many Hispanic areas) is such an intense and general phenomenon in the area under study that we can hypothesize the proximity to a change, it is particularly interesting to know the structures and positions that make possible the choice of one or the other pronoun with plural referent. To this end, we address the use of clitic pronouns which are governed by three triadic predicates –“dar”, “salir” and “otorgar”– which in the linguistic contexts analysed restrict the use of accusative clitics, giving way only to dative clitics, which are the units considered in this paper.