A quantitative corpus-based study of the position of clause-level syntactic functions in Spanish and its relationship with the type of clause, constituent and text

Abstract

This paper deals with the position of clause-level grammatical functions in Spanish and its relationship with a set of variables related to the type of clause, constituent and text. The data is extracted from a linguistic database, the Base de Datos Sintácticos del español actual. The aim of the study is not to provide a theoretical explanation of the order but to provide quantitative corpus-based information about the phenomenon from a theory-neutral perspective.