TY - JOUR N2 - The article presents the analysis of the rules of punctuation concentrated on the use of a comma in Spanish language. Nevertheless, in the introduction the author cite several exemples to show the differences and similarities between the use of a comma in Spanish, Polish, Russian, Czech, French, English and German languages in order to emphasize the conventional nature of the comma. The main part of the work presents the use of a comma in Spanish in five syntactic contexts. The article ends with conclusions that reveal the obligatory, distinctive and optional nature of the comma in the Spanish orthography. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/109051/PDF/KN%204-18%2011PAWLAK.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/109051 PY - 2018 IS - No 4 EP - 620 DO - 10.24425/kn.2018.125007 KW - orthography KW - Spanish punctuation KW - contrastive punctuation KW - comma KW - syntax of the statement A1 - Pawlak, Aneta PB - Wydział I Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych PAN i Uniwersytet Warszawski DA - 2018.12.06 T1 - El carácter convencional, obligatorio, distintivo y opcional del uso de la coma en español SP - 606 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/109051 T2 - Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny ER -