The Weight of Age in the Use of the Imperfect and Pluperfect Subjunctive (-ra/-se)

espanolEn este trabajo, se analiza el uso de la variable imperfecto y pluscuamperfecto de subjuntivo -ra/-se en el castellano limeno desde una perspectiva variacionista. A partir de una muestra de hablantes con formacion universitaria dividida en tres grupos etarios (jovenes, adultos y mayores), se propone determinar si -ra esta desplazando a -se. Para lo anterior, se analiza si la eleccion de una u otra variante esta condicionada por la edad. Se concluye que el uso de -ra supera al de -se en la muestra estudiada. Asimismo, se comprueba que mientras los jovenes prefieren mas -ra que los adultos y mayores, los ultimos usan mas -se, lo que confirma que una forma esta desplazando a la otra en el castellano limeno. EnglishThis paper focuses on analyzing the use of the imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive -ra/-se in the Spanish spoken in Lima from a variational perspective. From a sample of university speakers of three age groups (young, adults and older), it is proposed to determine if -ra is displacing -se, for which it will be analyzed if the election of one or another variant is conditioned by age. It is concluded that the use of -ra exceeds that of -se in the sample studied. Likewise, it is found that while young people prefer more -ra than adults and older people, the later ones use more -se, which confirms that one form is displacing the other in the Spanish of Lima.