El futuro del subjuntivo en la Banda Oriental del siglo XVIII

Resum

The disappearance of the Subjunctive Future, which takes place in Spain during the 16th and 17th centuries, seems to have happened later in the case of American Spanish. Examples of its use can be found in Chile or Argentina in the 18th century, so that this period establishes the end of the utilisation of this verbal form. This article tries to analyse the use of the Subjunctive Future in the Uruguayan variety of Spanish from the 18th century, in order to establish the distribution of the tense. The situation in Montevideo will be also compared with the one that Fontanella de Weinberg describes for the Spanish of Buenos Aires in the same period, as this city practices a decisive influence in the conformation of the variety spoken in the Banda Oriental.