A mudança da ordem dos constituintes adjetivo e substantivo na língua catalã: uma análise diacrônica

Abstract

In face of the quantitative analysis of sintagma nominal (SN) of theCatalan language, giving relevance to the relations between theconstituents, adjective and substantive, and, through a corpuscomposed of texts dated from the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 20thcenturies, I noted the change of word order of the constituents A(adjective) and N (substantive), to AN > NA. In other words, theold order, the anteposition of A to N, gives place to a more recentform, the posposition of A in relation to N. I verified that certaininherent semantic features act as determinative factors of the orderof these constituents, the adjectives and substantives.