La fossilització de l'enclisi en preguntes exclamatives gramaticalitzades com a marcadors modals
This paper is about exclamatory questions Vols-te creure que...?! (literally, want-you to believe that...) and Vols-t'hi jugar que...?! (literally, want-you-there to bet that...), used as modal markers in some Catalan varieties. The aim of this study is to justify the enclisis of the weak prono...
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| Tipo de documento: | capítulo de livro |
| Data de publicação: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositório: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | catalão |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:304283 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/304283 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Clitic pronouns Exclamatory questions Grammaticalization Modal markers Old Catalan Pronoms clítics Preguntes exclamatives Gramaticalització Marcadors modals Català antic |
| Resumo: | This paper is about exclamatory questions Vols-te creure que...?! (literally, want-you to believe that...) and Vols-t'hi jugar que...?! (literally, want-you-there to bet that...), used as modal markers in some Catalan varieties. The aim of this study is to justify the enclisis of the weak pronouns to the verb, which violates Contemporary Catalan grammar. The analysis of data extracted from the Computerized Corpus of Old Catalan (CICA) makes evident that weak pronoun postposition to finite verb clearly predominated in Old Catalan in neuter affirmative main clauses in which the verb was the first constituent. This finding allows us to assume that the analysed constructions date back to the period in which enclisis was the usual position in them. The fossilization of weak pronoun postposition is a consequence of two grammaticalization processes: the one that turned Vols-te creure que...?! into a modal marker of surprise, and the one that converted Vols-t'hi jugar que...?! into an epistemic modal marker, equivalent to the periphrasis of probability with deure (must), but emphatic. |
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