The possible grammaticalization of Spanish discourse marker o sea
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The present study is based on the hypothesis that one of the most frequently used discourse markers in contemporary Spanish, o sea, exhibits the possible process of grammaticalization. Grammaticalization can be defined as a linguistic phenomenon in which a lexical item becomes a grammatical one, or an already grammatical item becomes an even more grammatical one along the process of language change. Through both diachronic and synchronic analyses of frequency of uses, it was shown that there had been a dramatic increase in the frequency of o sea specifically in oral contexts, which serves as a trigger for the beginning of grammaticalization. Based on this finding, a quantitative corpus analysis of various uses of o sea in authentic oral speeches was conducted. The results confirmed that the discourse marker in question revealed most of the characteristics of grammaticalization: ‘desemantization’ or ‘semantic bleaching’ shown by the change from a conjunction word to a discourse marker with its semantic meaning equivalent to es decir and a saber, and to an unmarked filler word with no semantic meaning; ‘extension’ demonstrated by the fact that o sea has gained various pragmatic functions over time; ‘decategorization’ reflected in some of the innovative ways of writing; and some subtle but noticeable ‘phonemic reduction’.
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The present study is based on the hypothesis that one of the most frequently used discourse markers in contemporary Spanish, o sea, exhibits the possible process of grammaticalization. Grammaticalization can be defined as a linguistic phenomenon in which a lexical item becomes a grammatical one, or an already grammatical item becomes an even more grammatical one along the process of language change. Through both diachronic and synchronic analyses of frequency of uses, it was shown that there had been a dramatic increase in the frequency of o sea specifically in oral contexts, which serves as a trigger for the beginning of grammaticalization. Based on this finding, a quantitative corpus analysis of various uses of o sea in authentic oral speeches was conducted. The results confirmed that the discourse marker in question revealed most of the characteristics of grammaticalization: ‘desemantization’ or ‘semantic bleaching’ shown by the change from a conjunction word to a discourse marker with its semantic meaning equivalent to es decir and a saber, and to an unmarked filler word with no semantic meaning; ‘extension’ demonstrated by the fact that o sea has gained various pragmatic functions over time; ‘decategorization’ reflected in some of the innovative ways of writing; and some subtle but noticeable ‘phonemic reduction’.
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