LINGUISTIC CHANGE BY SUBJECTIFICATION: THE CASE OF “DIGAMOS” (LET’S SAY)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15381/escrypensam.v19i39.13725Keywords:
subjectification, grammaticalization, deverbal markers, oral colloquial Spanish.Abstract
This article discusses the process of grammaticalization of the subjunctive verb digamos (let’s say) as a discourse marker through the mechanism of subjectivity in oral colloquial Spanish. Based on the analysis of a synchronous corpus of spontaneous spoken language and a diachronic corpus of Spanish, we will explicit the subjective expressive uses produced by pragmatic inferences whose base is the subjective nature of the communicative event.
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