"Que" inicial átono como marca de modalidad

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ID5828635
AuthorsSalvador Pons Bordería (0000-0001-5788-5506, Universitat de València, corresponding author)
Year2003
Issue17
Pages531-531
Publication date2003-12-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueELUA Estudios de Lingüística Universidad de Alicante (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0212-7636 • E-ISSN: 2171-6692
PublisherUniversidad de Alicante Servicio de Publicaciones (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.14198/elua2003.17.29
OpenAlexW2167867758
LanguagePT
Citations received8
References cited2

Unstressed que-inital constructions have been traditionally treated as instances of conjunction-headed structures, preceded or not by an implicit performative verb. In this paper it is argued that such an explanation runs into problems when gwe-constructions are faced with their interrogative counterparts, which also show unstressed-initial que. As an alternative, que is considered a modality marker, whose main function is to show, in these constructions, the speaker's stance with regard of the proposition. In this light,, a unified account of interrogative, affirmative and exclamative instances of unstressed que-initial sentences can be provided

Conjunction (astronomy · Interrogative · Modality (human–computer interaction · Performative utterance · Proposition · Basque language and culture studies · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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