When Planning Means No Plan: Bidirectional Subjectification in Peninsular Spanish en plan– From Adverbial Phrase to Discourse Marker Functions
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Tania Abella Fernandez
Abstract
Subjectification is a dynamic category in linguistic change as it triggers both grammaticalization and pragmaticalization. In this line, this study traces the evolution of Spanish en plan ‘in plan’ from its origin in the 13th century to the present. I argue that en plan has undergone a bidirectional process of subjectification. Its internal structure has become more fixed, moving from concrete meanings (una clase de literatura, cuyas producciones se semejan en plan, estilo … ‘a kind of literature, whose productions are similar in plan, style …’), to perform approximate adverbial functions (Sus actuaciones (…) son en plan restringido ‘their performances are like restricted’). Moreover, it developed discourse marker functions (le soltó en plan: “oye no es por nada” ‘she said “hey, just saying”’). This implies that the structure has undergone a bidirectional change, first towards the grammar, through grammaticalization, and away from the grammar and towards discourse through a process of discursivization.
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Dr. Jessi Aaron for her kind help and insightful observations throughout the process of data collection and analysis, and to Dr. Jorge Valdés Kroff for his help during the revision process.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- When Planning Means No Plan: Bidirectional Subjectification in Peninsular Spanish en plan– From Adverbial Phrase to Discourse Marker Functions
- Fugu Me! Roots and Denominal Verb Productivity: New Data
- Are Verb-Noun Compounds Syntactically or Lexically Related to Verb Phrases?
- From Ser Focalizador and Contrast to the Presuppositional [Verb+Ser+X] Construction in Spanish
- An Emergent Apprehensional Epistemic Adverbial in Spanish
- The Syntactic and Discourse Properties of Second Person Singular Forms of Address in Paisa Spanish
- Nada, nadie: A Study of Negative Concord in L2 Spanish
