Timeline for Are there any rules governing whether or not a verbal phrase can be split by its subject?
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| Mar 25, 2018 at 21:12 | comment | added | aparente001 | @LisaBeck - Oh shoot, I think I was looking at the wrong green chart. | |
| Mar 25, 2018 at 21:10 | comment | added | Lisa Beck | The phrase in question was "vienen a trabajar (en los campos freseros)" and what rules might exist regarding word order, specifically related to placing the subject in the middle of such a construct (rather than at the front or at the end). I wasn't asking about the construct involved in "trabajar en los campos freseros." | |
| Mar 25, 2018 at 2:09 | comment | added | aparente001 | (1) A: Where are you going? B: I'm going to work/the office. Here, "work" is a noun. (2) A: What are you going to do now? B: I'm going to work on my project. Here, "work" is a verb. Sorry I don't have the technical terminology to talk about this. I hope you can see the distinction nevertheless. | |
| Mar 25, 2018 at 1:41 | comment | added | aparente001 | @LisaBeck - I think that "ir a ver" and "venir a vivir" are different from "trabajar en los campos freseros." "A vivir" and "a ver" aren't prepositional phrases. I'm sorry, I don't know what the construction "ir/venir a (verbo)" is called. | |
| Mar 25, 2018 at 1:18 | comment | added | Lisa Beck | You are exactly right, aparente001. That is precisely what I had been wondering about. So even in those examples in the green-shaded chart where it appears there is some evidence of it -- van muchos a ver, vienen muchos a vivir -- that sounds really unnatural to you? | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 2:49 | history | answered | aparente001 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |