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Abstract
The second-person singular tú in Spanish usually extends its reference to the speaker as well as to the audience, turning into a communicative resource that invests the content with an objective meaning. This investigation analyzes the linguistic elements that help to construct the second-person singular tú as an objectivizing viewpoint. To create such a viewpoint space builders play an essential role. Their function is to create a cognitive viewpoint of the event, placing the content on an imperfective temporal axis which provides it with a regular and continuous meaning. The infinitive, the clitic se, unspecific NPs, the pronoun uno and temporal markers cuando and si are the space builders considered to promote the objectiving meaning of the second-person singular tú.
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