ECUADORIAN VARIANT OF SPANISH: FUTURE TENSE INSTEAD OF IMPERATIVE

Abstract

The article is devoted to studying the peculiarities of the Ecuadorian variant of the Spanish language, namely the unusual way of forming imperatives using the simple future tense. From the beginning, the Spanish language in Ecuador coexisted with other national languages of indigenous peoples, particularly Kichwa or Quechua. As a result of their semantic-pragmatic and syntactic convergence, Ecuadorian Spanish acquired new characteristics that distinguish it from the rest of the national variants. One of these features is using the simple future tense as an imperative. We determined that the future form is used to soften orders, requests, and recommendations; at the same time, it also has other contextual meanings, such as remoteness in time, transfer of responsibility, emphasis, and highlighting the importance of the enouncement. It is unusual how the structure characteristic of the imperative mood is transferred to the imperative formed with the help of the future tense, namely the adding of the “se” particle and pronouns of the direct object after the verb in the future simple tense.