Abstract

FRANKE, Mayra. The use of verbals: case description in the guatemalan judicial language. Lingüística [online]. 2018, vol.34, n.1, pp.173-187. ISSN 2079-312X.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2079-312x.20180009.

It was hypothesized that the use of verbals was more common compared to the conjugated forms of verbs in the Guatemalan judicial language. The analysis was based on a corpus of 63 pages (1781 verbs). After the study, the hypothesis was rejected because the personal forms of verbs were used more often in comparison to verbals (62% versus 38%). In addition, it was discovered that the most commonly used verb form was participle (22.8%) and that the use of simple verbs doubled the use of participle (46%). The enclitic pronouns in infinitives, gerunds and verbal periphrases appeared 13.3% and the misuse of verbals varied between 1% and 37%, which revealed that the gerund is one of the verbals with more misuses in the Guatemalan judicial language.

Keywords : verbals; infinitive; participle; gerund; judicial language.

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