Lo que es and lo que viene siendo. Discursive distribution of a focus marking

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  • Bernardo E. Pérez Álvarez Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24201/nrfh.v69i2.3755

Keywords:

focus,, cleft sentences,, informative clefts,, Mexican Spanish,, discourse processing

Abstract

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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2021-04-22

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Pérez Álvarez, B. E. . (2021). Lo que es and lo que viene siendo. Discursive distribution of a focus marking. Nueva Revista De Filología Hispánica (NRFH), 69(2). https://doi.org/10.24201/nrfh.v69i2.3755
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Vol. 69 No. 2 (2021)

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