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Lo que el uso de las construcciones "con o sin mí" y"con o sin ti" nos muestra sobre la estructura de la lengua
(2016-11-18) Echevarría Arriagada, Carlos I.
This paper centers around the disjunctive constructions con o sin mi and con o sin ti as alternatives to conmigo o sin mi and contigo o sin ti in Spanish, for the im- plications of their use for the subject of the compatibility between the preposition con and the personal pronouns mi and ti and, on a more general level, of the language value of these pronouns. Attention is drawn to the confirmation of a non-negligible number of cases of the former constructions, which may be considered "uncanonical", due to the fact that, in them, con and the pronoun contract the same syntagmatic relation as in the now disused and frowned-upon constructions con mi and con ti. The apparent pa- radox is explained in terms of the Coserian distinction between system and norm, thus serving as an example to clarify the meaning and relevance of said distinction. Finally, the paper closes with some reflections on the way languages are historically constituted.