La ausencia de preposición ante 'que'¿un paso hacia su gramaticalización?
ISSN: 0212-4130
Any de publicació: 1998
Número: 15
Pàgines: 109-118
Tipus: Article
Altres publicacions en: Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna
Resum
This paper presents a sociolinguistic analysis of the cases of absence of a preposition before the relative que recorded in a corpus of spoken Spanish from Santa Cruz de Tenerife. This construction is censored by prescriptive grammar since it is considered that the relative undergoes a grammaticalization process; that is, it loses its pronominal character to become a conjunction. The results of the analysis, however, show that both this and the equivalent construction with preposition are mere sociocultural or stylistic variants of a same syntactico-semantic structure.