Reporting on ‘thinking’ in Spanish and Portuguese and the role of the subject pronoun
- The present paper is concerned with the phenomenon of reporting on the speakers’ thinking when both the reporting and the reported clauses originate in one and the same speaker, i.e. the performative uses of the verbs sp. creer and pt. achar (‘think’). The data are retrieved from the CdE-NOW and CdP-NOW. Adopting both a quantitative and a qualitative perspective, I concentrate on reporting on thinking with and without the overt expression of the subject pronouns sp. yo and pt. eu. In doing so, the constructions (yo) creo (que) and (eu) acho (que) as well as parenthetic and right-peripheral creo yo and acho eu are studied. According to the corpus data and compared to other possible constructions with creo and acho, creo que and acho que represent the most frequent constructions if searching for the ‘node’ creo or acho, that is, if the non-use of the subject pronoun exceeds its explicit expression.
Author details: | Anja HennemannORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-474455 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-47445 |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2020/08/17 |
Publication year: | 2020 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2020/08/17 |
Tag: | Portuguese; Spanish; cognitive verbs; discourse function; mitigation; subject pronoun |
Number of pages: | 19 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Romanistik |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 44 Französisch, romanische Sprachen allgemein / 440 Romanische Sprachen; Französisch |
Peer review: | Nicht referiert |
License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |