A cognitive-constructionist approach to Spanish creo Ø and creo yo ‘[I] think’

Hennemann, Anja

doi:10.1515/flin-2016-0017

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“…The analysis of complement type indicates that 1SG pronoun expression is frequent with creer and saber when the cognizer is an evaluator. The high rates of 1SG pronoun expression with evaluative complements supports the findings of Aijón Oliva & Serrano (2010), Posio (2014) and Hennemann (2016) that yo creo 'I think' is favored in contexts of personal opinion and (inter-) subjectivity. Furthermore, it indicates that the role of evaluator might be relevant for 1SG saber as well, even though fewer data points are available.…”

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“…Concrete, visually falsifiable information (descriptions in the classification proposed here) triggers lower overt 1SG pronoun frequencies with matrix cognitive verbs than beliefs which are expressed with respect to evaluations and non-visual, abstract information. Thus, (inter-)subjectivity is an important factor (Enríquez 1984;Aijón Oliva & Serrano 2010;Posio 2013;Hennemann 2016) in that yo creo que often encodes a subjective evaluator rather than a mere cognizer. I have argued, building on Mayol (2010), that overt 1SG pronoun insertion with creer is motivated by "weak contrast".…”

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Perspectival factors and pro-drop: A corpus study of speaker/addressee pronouns with creer ‘think/ believe’ and saber ‘know’ in spoken Spanish

Herbeck

2021

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This paper examines overt and covert speaker/addressee pronouns with the cognitive verbs creer ‘think/believe’ and saber ‘know’ in a corpus of spoken peninsular Spanish – the Madrid and Alcalá samples of PRESEEA (2014– ) – with a focus on 1st person singular (yo) creo que ‘(I) think that’. Departing from the observation made in the literature that overt pronouns are highly frequent with creer and that topic shift cannot account for all of them, it will be argued that perspectival factors related to evidentiality/epistemicity and subjectivity influence overt pronoun realization. A corpus study was conducted to investigate whether (i) [person] and [polarity] and (ii) the type of complement affect overt pronoun realization with the cognitive verbs creer and saber. The results indicate that the type of belief expressed in the embedded clause should be taken into account, as well as person and polarity. The ultimate trigger for phonetic realization of speaker/addressee pronouns will be argued to be the notion of contrast: cognitive verbs whose embedded complement encodes evaluations and non-visual, abstract information have high frequencies of overt pronoun realization because these contexts favor the evoking of alternative perspective holders. Overt pronouns will be analyzed as the result of a [+contrast] feature which is assigned to the specifier of a functional category encoding perspective in the split IP.

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Perspectival factors and pro-drop: A corpus study of speaker/addressee pronouns with creer ‘think/ believe’ and saber ‘know’ in spoken Spanish

Herbeck

2021

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…Desde el pasado siglo, la bibliografía ha tratado de explicar el comportamiento de creo y de sus formas homólogas en otras lenguas, si bien estos estudios se han centrado generalmente en su pragmática (Simon-Vandenbergen 2000;Gachet 2009;Fetzer 2014). Actualmente, se sabe poco acerca de su morfología construccional y de su semántica, cuestiones que resultan relevantes en una descripción comportamental íntegra de creo (Jaszczolt 2000, Van Bogaert 2011, Hennemann 2016. Estas aproximaciones son necesarias 1 Facultad de Filología.…”

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“…Existen diferentes construcciones de creo en el español oral sincrónico que manifiestan un valor de opinión (Buceta 2014, Hennemann 2016. Este es uno de los dos dominios semánticos modales que principalmente manifiestan, no solo creo, sino también otras formas performativas subjetivizadoras de los verbos doxásticos (ej.…”

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Esto es lo que creo… El dominio de la opinión en el español hablado a través de los usos construccionales de creo

Bonafont

2022

Círc. lingüíst. apl. comun.

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La forma verbal doxástica creo se caracteriza por poder manifestar valores proposicionales, así como otros de carácter modal (Soler 2019, 2021). Son estos últimos la epistemicidad y la opinión. De entre ellos, la bibliografía ha relacionado tradicionalmente el valor de opinión con una función pragmática de refuerzo en contextos confrontacionales y proclives a la aparición de la intensificación, como es el caso de los debates parlamentarios (Simon-Vanderbengen 1998, 2000; Gachet 2009; Fetzer 2014; Fuentes Rodríguez 2015, 2016). Sin embargo, los límites de este dominio aún no han sido explorados convenientemente, con lo que las afirmaciones en torno a su funcionalidad se ven débilmente sustentadas. Esta investigación pretende describir qué ocurre con el valor de opinión de creo en la oralidad en español, más allá del género específico en el que aparezca. Explora un corpus de conversaciones coloquiales con el fin de sistematizar el comportamiento del significado opinativo desde una perspectiva cognitiva, la cual pueda extrapolarse al análisis en otro tipo de contextos. El estudio observa que la construcción de creo determina en más del 20 % de los casos el valor semántico manifestado, mientras que otros aspectos formales explican más del 50 % de sus funciones pragmáticas. Asimismo, la investigación ilustra que la suma de los resultados proporcionados por la observación de la construcción del verbo, el comportamiento del sujeto, la negación, la naturaleza del verbo introducido por creo, su posición y otros aspectos proporciona más información sobre el dominio de la opinión que el género mismo en el que aparece creo.

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“…En otras palabras, se pone de manifiesto la utilidad de la Gramática Cognitiva de Construcciones (CCxG) como posible base descriptiva de las construcciones modales (cf. también Hennemann 2016o Wärnsby 2016.…”

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Tal vez es X vs. Tal vez sea X. Probability constructions and the use of mood

Hennemann¹

2020

Romanica Olomucensia

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This paper is concerned with constructions that express probability and their interaction with the indicative and subjunctive mood, as well as with other contextual elements. In detail, the paper deals with the constructions [sin duda + indicative/subjunctive], [tal vez + indicative/subjunctive], [probablemente + indicative/subjunctive] and [posiblemente + indicative/subjunctive]. In their interaction with mood, the constructions are understood as different microconstructions. For example, [sin duda + indicative] and [sin duda + subjunctive] are seen as different microconstructions of the superordinate mesoconstruction [modal construction (of probability) + verb]. In a qualitative analysis examples from the CREA, CORPES XXI, and CdE corpora are examined regarding the interaction of [expression of probability] + [mood]. Following the Principle of No Synonymy of Grammatical Forms, the analysis confirms that the use of mood additionally influences the expressed degree of probability of the constructions. For instance, while probablemente generally expresses a slightly higher probability than posiblemente, a fine-tuned analysis shows that the expressed degrees of probability of [probablemente + subjunctive] and [posiblemente + indicative] are highly similar. This is also often confirmed by further contextual information. In summary, the paper shows that Cognitive Construction Grammar is a very suitable background against which to investigate modal phenomena, as cognitive approaches generally deal with the ways in which language users conceptualize the world from their own point of view, and as expressions of modality, more precisely, probability, are also closely related to speakers' attitudes or perspectives.

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A cognitive-constructionist approach to Spanish creo Ø and creo yo ‘[I] think’

Cited by 9 publications

References 26 publications

Perspectival factors and pro-drop: A corpus study of speaker/addressee pronouns with creer ‘think/ believe’ and saber ‘know’ in spoken Spanish

Perspectival factors and pro-drop: A corpus study of speaker/addressee pronouns with creer ‘think/ believe’ and saber ‘know’ in spoken Spanish

Esto es lo que creo… El dominio de la opinión en el español hablado a través de los usos construccionales de creo

Tal vez es X vs. Tal vez sea X. Probability constructions and the use of mood

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