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Letras (Lima)
On-line version ISSN 2071-5072
Abstract
CASAS NAVARRO, Raymundo. El dequeísmo: ¿un cambio en progreso de la sintaxis castellana?. Letras [online]. 2015, vol.86, n.124, pp.289-310. ISSN 2071-5072.
The purpose of this article is to understand the syntactic nature of the dequeismo as phenomenon of the Spanish and to determine their sociolinguistic factors involved. Thereby, we refuse the normative fixity that explains the dequeismo as a mere transgression or as a case of idiomatic incorrectness. In contrast with a cohort of hypothesis arranged in the recent literature, it has achieved to corroborate that the dequeista behavior is an innovative isogloss in the general mechanism of Spanish subordination. Considering some aspects of cognition, we support that for an increasing group of Spanish speakers the conjunction ‘que’ is not it sufficiently clear to satisfy the subordination operator of the substantive subordination in syntax Spanish. Indeed, the use of the sequence 'de que' introducing clauses of substantive subordination can be viewed as a change in progress of the Spanish. Thereby, one points out to achieve an ideal symmetry in the hypotactic system of our language. In order to explain the sociolinguistic factors involved in the dequeismo, we have applied a test to a group of speakers, seemingly, very innovative: the young persons of between 15 and 25 years old. We discuss if the variables sex and literacy have an influence in the dequeista behavior
Keywords : Dequeismo; sociolinguistic factor; change in progress; substantive subordination.