The subjectification of de que in Colombian Spanish
Abstract
This paper deals with the phenomenon known as dequeísmo in Spanish, in particular with the semantic differences between canonical sentences with queand dequeísta sentences. I analyze previous corpus studies of dequeísmo, test their predictions with an independent corpus of spoken Colombian Spanish, and finally carry out a logistic regression to test new possible parameters that might influence speaker's choice. The result is that most previous accounts of dequeísmo are not consistent with the corpus used for this study, and that dequeísmo seems to be influenced by the discourse context (real or non real situations), and speaker's subjectivity.
Published
2013-12-31
How to Cite
Guzmán Naranjo, M. (2013). The subjectification of de que in Colombian Spanish. Linguamática, 5(2), 79-89. Retrieved from https://linguamatica.com/index.php/linguamatica/article/view/158
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New Perspectives
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