Diachronic study of universal concessive-conditional clauses prefaced by quienquier(a) que in Peninsular Spanish
Abstract
This work presents a diachronic analysis of universal concessive-conditional constructions prefaced by quienquier(a) que in peninsular Spanish data, with the purpose of describing aspects of linguistic change. To do so, we start from the theoretical assumptions of Sweetser (1990), for whom the change in meanings can be explained through metaphorical connections that follow a unidirectional trajectory towards the expression of increasingly abstract, subjective, interpersonal meanings. Along with the evolution of meanings, we investigated the morphosyntactic changes that may have affected these structures. The corpus used, extracted from the CORDE database (Corpus Diacrónico del Español), brings together occurrences of concessive-conditional constructions in the ancient, middle and modern phases of Spanish. As analysis criteria, we chose the pragmatic domain of action (content, epistemic and speech act), factuality, mode-temporal coding and the ordering of the concessive-conditional structure. As a result, we attest that these structures specialized early in the expression of more abstract meanings, which was accompanied by changes in standards regarding factuality and the growing preference for anteposition.
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