LA SINTAXIS DE LOS ENUNCIADOS TÉTICOS Y CATEGÓRICOS EN DOS TRADUCCIONES DE CORAZONES SOLITARIOS DE RUBEM FONSECA AL ESPAÑOL

ABSTRACT In this paper syntactic resources used in two translations into Spanish of Brazilian Rubem Fonseca's short story Corações solitários ("Lonely hearts") are analyzed. We studied all 13 occurrences where discrepancies in subject-verb word order between the two translations were found. Within Lambrecht's (1994, 2000) Pragmatics and Sasse's (1987, 2006) studies on theticity the statements found were grouped in "thetic" or "categorical" and the relation between syntactic solutions offered by each translator and the information structure of the statements was considered. Results show solu...