Comparative analysis of the 3rd person atonic pronoun placement in Galician and Romanian

Abstract

Due to the lack of contrastive grammar studies between Galician and Romanian, with the first being the most western Romanic language ―along with Portuguese― and the second one the eastern one, we elaborated the thesis “Comparative study of the Galician and Romanian pronominal system: the personal pronoun in Os outros feirantes / Alţi tîrgoveţi by Álvaro Cunqueiro”. From the many conclusions that we extracted from this work, this article is born with the aim of showing the divergences and similarities in the placement of the 3rd person pronoun, both in singular and plural, in both languages, in the studied corpus.

Keywords: contrastive grammar, syntax, third person weak-pronoun collocation, Galician and Romanian