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El deseo y el subjuntivo
er’s interest and the latter the addressee’s. Proposals and invitations
occupy an intermediate posi tion».
43 Es el segundo criterio que se emplea para la clasifi cación de los
actos directivos: «The second criterion, i.e. the extend to which the
speaker leaves the addressee an option of non-compliance can be
defi ned in tercos of a bindingness/optionality scale, which is derived
from Leech (1980). On the basis of this dimension we can distinguish
for instance between orders, which are binding directives, and, at the
other end of the scale, request, which are optional directives, because
the decision whether or not to realize the content is left to the addressee».
44 RISSELADA, 1993: 158: «To conclude, although originally the perfect
subjunctive may have had a particular aspectual value, expressing
non-durative prohibitions, this expression develops, to some extend
already in Early Latin, but more in Classical Latin into a regular
prohibitive expression, whose value is relatively neutral with respect to
aspect immediacy, and directive subtypes».
45 Tal es nuestra opinión en MESA (1994a).
46 Desde luego la idea no es en absoluto original; así la expone con
rotundidad, por ejemplo, PINKSTER (1992: 218-9): «Corpus analysis
has its advantages and its disad vantages: the advantage is that it
forces the scholar working on it to explain all instan ces in the corpus.
It has the disadvantage that it excludes interesting items and even
counterexamples known from earlier studies. We will fi nd in instance of
this later on. In a fi eld so long and intensively worked on I would prefer
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