Los sistemas de nominativo del pronombre personal gallego

Abstract

Abstract The present research addresses the nominative case systems of the Galician personal pronouns and shows the possibilities that the mapping of linguistic zones based on a system of elements opens up for Galician dialectology. The territory occupied by the different linguistic convergences and their contextualization in the Galician-Portuguese dialectal continuum are also investigated. In addition to the most relevant bibliography, data from the ALGa (Galician linguistic atlas) were used for the analysis of Galician as a whole, and surveys and recordings were implemented to study the particularities of Galician in the municipality of Castrelo do Val and the region of Verín. The convergences detected do not match the three linguistic blocks proposed by Galician dialectology. The nominative case system of the personal pronoun of the Irian diocese is the most commonly used but its use is not as large as the Western Block. The second largest system is the Auriense, but it is less than half the size of the Central Block. The other systems detected occupy smaller areas than the two already mentioned. Among them, we can find the system used in the municipality of Castrelo do Val and the prototypical form from Verín, which only departs from the main system of the Galician-Portuguese continuum in the use of el instead of ele and in the pronunciation of ela with a close-mid front vowel.