Recomplementation in Old Spanish - que as a Versatile Pragmatic Marker

HAGEMANN, KRISTIN

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (2020), 97, (10), 1031–1054.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2020.59
Language: English
Pages: 24

Abstract

This paper is a qualitative study of a limited number of recomplementation structures in Old Spanish, isolating at least three different pragmatic uses connected to speech acts. The study shows that second que was a versatile marker with core functions connected to indirect and direct assertion. It is shown that the sandwiched material in structures with recomplementation belong to the higher fields of the left periphery, but that contrary to a 2007 analysis by Sandra Paoli, they are not always topical in nature, and second que can therefore not merely be a topic marker. It is argued that second que in its most neutral version is the lexicalization of a speech act-operator, generating a speaker deixis-projection such as that suggested in a 2006 paper by Liliane Haegeman, and compatible with the analysis proposed for interrogative clauses in 2013 by Carlos De Cuba and Jonathan E. MacDonald, as well as Francesc González i Planas’ pragmatic analyses for Modern Spanish, shedding light on the development of second que in the history of Spanish.

Este trabajo es un estudio cualitativo de un número limitado de estructuras oracionales que manifiestan el fenómeno conocido como recomplementación en el español antiguo, identificando por lo menos tres diferentes usos pragmáticos vinculados a los actos de habla. El estudio nos permite apreciar que el segundo que en estas estructuras era un marcador versátil cuya función primordial tenía que ver con la aserción directa e indirecta. Se muestra además que el material que aparece entre las dos manifestaciones de que en estructuras con recomplementación pertenece a la parte superior de la periferia izquierda, pero que no necesariamente es de naturaleza puramente tópica, como se ha sostenido en el análisis de 2007 de Sandra Paoli, implicando que este segundo que no puede ser un mero marcador de tópico. Se mantiene que este marcador pragmático en su versión más neutra lexicaliza un operador de acto de habla, que a su turno genera una proyección de deixis de locutor, tal y como sugirió Liliane Haegeman en su análisis de 2006, y compatible tanto con el análisis presentado en 2013 para las subordinadas interrogativas del español moderno por Carlos De Cuba y Jonathan E. MacDonald como los análisis pragmáticos de Francesc González i Planas sobre el español moderno, echando luz al desarrollo diacrónico de este fenómeno.

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