Lo que es and lo que viene siendo. Discursive distribution of a focus marking
This paper describes the use of a special focus marker in Spanish, constructed with the relative lo que and the verb ser in two variants: lo que es and lo que viene siendo. With 106 examples obtained from the Corpus michoacano del español, the paper explains how this construction, deriving from clef...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | México |
| Recursos: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Nueva revista de Filología Hispánica |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.nrfh.colmex.mx:article/3755 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://nrfh.colmex.mx/index.php/nrfh/article/view/3755 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | focus, cleft sentences, informative clefts, Mexican Spanish, discourse processing foco, perífrasis informativa de relativo, oraciones hendidas, español mexicano, procesamiento discursivo |
| Resumo: | This paper describes the use of a special focus marker in Spanish, constructed with the relative lo que and the verb ser in two variants: lo que es and lo que viene siendo. With 106 examples obtained from the Corpus michoacano del español, the paper explains how this construction, deriving from cleft sentences, becomes a focus marker within a monoclausal structure. This usage is mainly attested in oral dialogical discourse in the public sphere where there is a medium level of formality; it is not in colloquial discourse, nor in highly formal situations. |
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