Subject expression in grammaticalizing constructions: The case of creo and acho ‘I think’ in Spanish and Portuguese

Posio, Pekka

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2013.07.001

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“…They have also been studied in Spanish (Kovacci 1986(Kovacci [1979; Davidson 1996;Maldonado González 1999;De Saeger 2007Vázquez Rosas 2006;Schneider 2007). Aijón Oliva and Serrano (2010) and Posio (2014) focus on the difference between verb usage with and without subject pronouns (see also De Saeger 2007: 275 andDe Cock 2014: 30-33 on the presence of the Spanish subject pronoun). Generally, verbs used parenthetically are understood as complement-taking predicates (CTPs), but this is a contested position.…”

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

Hennemann

2016

Folia Linguistica

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The present study approaches the Spanish postposed constructions creo Ø and creo yo '[p], [I] think' from a cognitive-constructionist perspective. It is argued that both constructions are to be distinguished from one another because creo Ø has a subjective function, while in creo yo, it is the intersubjective dimension that is particularly prominent. The present investigation takes both a qualitative and a quantitative perspective. With regard to the latter, the problem of quantitative representativity is addressed. The discussion posed the question of how empirical research can feed back into theory, more precisely, into the framework of Cognitive Construction Grammar. The data to be analyzed here are retrieved from the corpora Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual and Corpus del Español.

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Section: Verbs Used Parentheticallymentioning

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

Hennemann

2016

Folia Linguistica

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“…Dentro de este conjunto de elementos pragmáticos variados, los marcadores deverbales han recibido una atención particular: se trata de marcadores como mira, oye (Cuenca y Marín 2000), venga y vaya (Tanghe 2013), relacionados con los verbos de percepción y de movimiento respectivamente. También constituyen una fuente privilegiada de marcadores los verbos cognitivos: así tenemos marcadores como I think (Van Bogaert 2011), creo o pienso (Posio 2014), que reciben el nombre de epistémicos y se utilizan para expresar las creencias del hablante y/o su implicación en el discurso.…”

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El proceso de gramaticalización del marcador epistémico deverbal sabes

Sierra

Enghels

2017

Iberoromania

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Este artículo tiene el objetivo de reconstruir detalladamente el proceso, los contextos y las motivaciones de gramaticalización seguidos por el marcador epistémico sabes en su evolución histórica desde su fuente verbal. Un microanálisis diacrónico que estudia de cerca el proceso de surgimiento y de fijación de sabes entre los siglos XIX y XXI permite observar una serie de cambios semánticos, funcionales, morfosintácticos que coinciden con los criterios de gramaticalización asumidos. Los datos muestran que el marcador epistémico no parece haber llegado aún a la fase final del proceso de gramaticalización, pero sí apuntan a que el proceso se ha acelerado a partir de la segunda mitad del s. XX

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“…The various syntactic and semantic factors that regulate the distribution of the subjunctive also interact with pragmatic context. We hypothesize an interaction between subject of an epistemic verb and mood of its dependent clause, given previous claims that the overt realization of first person subject pronouns generally serves to anchor the discourse to the speaker's space (Oliva & Serrano 2010) and that their use is particularly frequent with epistemic verbs (Posio 2014). Specifically, we predict that subject realization is higher with indicative dependents of negated epistemics, as the inclusion of the overt first person subject is often considered a sign of contrastive focus between the matrix and the proposition (Mayol 2010;Pesková 2013).…”

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Subjunctive and subject pronoun realization: a study of "no creo que"

Harrington

Pérez‐Leroux

2016

Borealis

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Subjunctive mood in complement clauses is licensed under selection from certain predicates or under the scope of a modal or negation. In contexts where mood choice varies, such as the complement of a negated epistemic verb no creer, it introduces a contrast in interpretation. The subjunctive is thought to contribute to a shift in the modal anchoring of the embedded clause, and is consequently interpreted as indicative of a dissociation between the epistemic models of the speaker and the subject. We provide evidence that these uses also interact with pragmatic context. Given independent claims that 1) the overt realization of first person subject pronouns is contrastive and 2) it generally serves to anchor discourse to the speaker’s perspective and 3) overt use is particularly frequent with epistemic verbs, we examined the interaction between negation, first person subject pronoun realization, and mood of the dependent clause for the verb creer. An analysis of oral speech from the Proyecto de Habla Culta revealed that for negative sentences (no creo que), yo is overtly realized more frequently for cases with exceptional indicative dependents than for those with canonical subjunctive dependents; there was no association with mood for affirmative uses of creer. These results support analyses where negation has specific scope over the contrastive subject, rather than over the epistemic clause. As a consequence, the matrix proposition remains an assertion and use of indicative complements is licensed.

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Subject expression in grammaticalizing constructions: The case of creo and acho ‘I think’ in Spanish and Portuguese

Cited by 30 publications

References 20 publications

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

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

El proceso de gramaticalización del marcador epistémico deverbal sabes

Subjunctive and subject pronoun realization: a study of "no creo que"

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