Gramática, discurso, oralidad. Las formas "invisibles" de la polaridad positiva en español coloquial

Abstract

Contemporary grammarians usually accept that the Latin model of echo-response to total interrogatives through the repetition of the verb which the Spanish language kept active until the classical period has only survived to the present day in two Romance languages: Portuguese and Galician. However, colloquial Spanish corpora include numerous examples of communicative exchanges where the second member of an adjacent question-answer [or initiative intervention-reactive intervention] pair shows a repetition of the main verb in the initiative utterance (not necessarily interrogative) to which the reactive utterance replies. For the purpose of making visible these apparently «invisible» forms of positive polarity in colloquial Spanish, this work brings together a considerable number of examples and suggests undertaking their analysis, in a programmed way, from the essential distinction between forms belonging to idiomatic knowledge and discursively possible forms, the updating of which either responds to conceptional −and therefore universal− possibilities or is associated with discursive traditionality phenomena.