La subjetivización del de que en el español de Colombia

Abstract

This paper deals with the phenomenon known as dequeismo in Spanish, in particular with the semantic differences between canonical sentences with que and dequeista sentences. I analyze previous corpus studies of dequeismo, test their predictions with an independent corpus of spoken Colombian Spanish, and finally carry out a logistic regression to test new possible parameters that might influence speaker's choice. The result is that most previous accounts of dequeismo are not consistent with the corpus used for this study, and that dequeismo seems to be influenced by the discourse context (real or non real situations ), and speaker's subjectivity.