General Considerations on the Constructions «oír + infinitive» and «oír + that Clause» from a CORGA Sample

Abstract

From the analysis of syntax configuration types that shows the verb oír as predicate of noun clause in the current Galician language (oír + infinitive clause and oír + conjunctive clause), it is determined the frequency of use of each of them and it is established their syntax and semantics characteristics, as well as the relation that exists between the types of construction and the semantic value of its constituents. The empirical support used is a sample of eighty-two examples removed from the Corpus de Referencia do Galego Actual (CORGA), whose quantitative and qualitative study allows suggest some hypothesis about the type of construction more usual in the speech and the syntax, semantic and pragmatic factors that condition its structure.