The comitative in the Iberian Peninsula

Abstract

The comitative represents a particular case in the Romance languages of the Ibe¬rian Peninsula. Except in Catalan, the other varieties have a redundant form formed by the evolution of the Latin postposition strategy plus the addition of the preposition con (‘with’). However, some authors point out a tendency or, at least, a dialect reality that favours subject forms or stressed object forms in persons where normatively they are not possible. In order to find out the vernacular responses to this respect, this paper attempts to account for all the possibilities of the comitative in the Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula as well as the factors upon which the selection of either strategy depends.

https://doi.org/10.17398/2660-7301.42.151