Foundations for a historical syntax of the Spanish language of Chile

Abstract

The historical syntax of the Spanish language is a subject of study that has been delayed in the linguistic studies, especially if we see the progress shown by other research areas. This article intends to achieve a twofold purpose: first, it wants to present a brief state of the art on this issue, reviewing the works that define the diachronic syntactic research and, second, to establish the foundations of a historical syntactic study of the Spanish language of Chile.