El imperativo y la posición de los pronombres personales

Zusammenfassung

Both the enclitic pronouns (in the affirmative imperative forms) and proclitic pronouns (in the negative imperative forms, homonymous with those of the subjunctive mode) im-ply a total relationship of dependency with respect to the corresponding verb forms and, often, a certain phonetic fusion with them. The different ways they are written (separated or joined) should not mask this state of affairs. Furthermore, adding an enclitic pronoun has led to certain morphophonological changes (escribámoselo and not *escribámosselo, con-centrémonos and not *concentrémosnos, calmaos and not calmados). In certain cases, moreo-ver, adding an enclitic pronoun favors a greater degree of grammaticalization so that these pronouns are undoubtedly interpreted as an inseparable part of the verb in forms with Spurious -n (cállensen, cállesen, cómprenmelon, cómpremelon), as is the case when the accent falls on them (aseguresé, ponteló). However, the appearance of spurious -n also in hortatory forms (admitámoslon) and with certain gerunds (seguimos intentándolon) is more a sign of processes of restructuration of the paradigm of enclitic pronouns currently taking place in some varieties of Spanish than in completely atypical imperative verbal forms.