La ausencia de preposición ante 'que'¿un paso hacia su gramaticalización?
ISSN: 0212-4130
Year of publication: 1998
Issue: 15
Pages: 109-118
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna
Abstract
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.