The clauses preceded by incluso si in writing Peninsular Spanish in the light of functional discourse grammar

• Grant number: 16/01435-9
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Effective date (Start): May 01, 2016
• Effective date (End): July 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal researcher: Talita Storti Garcia
• Grantee: Bárbara Ribeiro Fante
• Home Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 16/16216-0 - The structures introduced by incluso Si in written peninsular Spanish: a functional-discursive perspective, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

This research project aims to investigate, in the light of Functional Discourse Grammar (HENGEVELD; MACKENZIE, 2008), clauses denominated as Concessive-Conditionals by the linguistic tradition and introduced by incluso si in data of writing peninsular Spanish, under the hypothesis that the hybridism proposed for this kind of clause does not exist. Consequently, we intend to analyze the morphosyntactics, semantics and pragmatics properties of those clauses. The universe of investigation is based on the corpus CREA (Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual). The importance of this research consists in contributing to the descriptive studies of writing Spanish and in testing the applicability of the model of Functional Discourse Grammar, contributing to its advancement. (AU)