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Spanish parece que

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Ephraim Cross
Ephraim Cross*
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College of the City of New York
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This study considers an established use of parecer ‘to seem’ not found in the grammars. The Spanish Academy's grammar cites only the construction parece que viene Juan ‘it seems that John is coming’. Bello treats parece ale-jar'se la tempestad ‘the storm seems to be moving off’, parecieron por un momento amansarse las olas ‘the waves seemed to grow gentle’, and los edificios parecían desplomarse ‘the buildings seemed to be collapsing’. Hanssen, in his Spanische

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Language , Volume 21 , Issue 4-Part1: October-December , December 1945 , pp. 265 - 267
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Copyright © 1945 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Gramática de la lengua española §284 b (Madrid-Barcelona, 1931).

2 A. Bello, Gramática de la lengua castellana23 §1099 and Notas §132 (Paris, 1928).

3 F. Hanssen, Spanische Grammatik §38.9 (Halle, 1910; Sp. ed., 1913).

4 M. M. Ramsey, A textbook of Modern Spanish3 (New York, 1894); little changed in subsequent printings, 1934, 1940.

5 H. Keniston, Spanish Syntax List (New York, 1937).

6 V. Salvá, Gramática de la lengua castellana7 208 (Paris, 1846).

7 J. Hurtado y J. de la Serna and A. Gonzalez Palencia, Historia de la literatura española3 237 (Madrid), 1932).

8 L. F. de Moratín, Obras dramáticas y líricas 2 Act II Sc. 15 (Paris, 1826).

9 B. Pérez Galdós, Marianela ch. xvii 197 (Madrid, 1919). 10Op.cit. 447.