@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/bjl.00037.gar, author = "Garachana, Mar and Sansiñena, María Sol", title = "Va a ser que no: The Spanish periphrastic future construction as refutative and assertive marker", journal= "Belgian Journal of Linguistics", year = "2020", volume = "34", number = "1", pages = "87-98", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.00037.gar", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/bjl.00037.gar", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "0774-5141", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "constructionalization", keywords = "refutative marker", keywords = "Spanish", keywords = "assertive marker", keywords = "periphrastic future construction", abstract = "Abstract

This study seeks to gain a better insight into the origin and expansion of the construction <va a ser que > (lit. goes to be that yes/no) in Peninsular Spanish. We argue that this construction derives from the use of the periphrastic future construction <ir a ‘go to’ + inf> in a pseudo-cleft sentence whose subject is a deictic element or an element that conveys the speaker’s attitudinal assessment of the propositional content expressed in the attribute, a complement que-clause. The etymological structure evolves through a process that formally implies the suppression of the explicit subject and the fusion of the components va a ser que leading to the conventionalization of refutative and assertive values. To demonstrate this directionality, we examine recent stages of change and develop syntactic and semantic-pragmatic arguments grounded in a data-based approach.", }