Abstract

FERNANDEZ RUIZ, Graciela. The Mirative Meaning of Conque in Current Mexican Spanish. Anu. let. lingüíst. filol. [online]. 2025, vol.13, n.1, pp.97-128.  Epub June 13, 2025. ISSN 2448-8224.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.adel.2025.13.1.00x328sw34.

In the linguistics literature, conque is usually described as an illative conjunction, that is, a conjunction that indicates “that the sentence that follows is a consequence or conclusion of the preceding one” (DEM). The aims of this paper are to show, based on the analysis of a corpus of contemporary Mexican Spanish compiled for this study with data from 1975-2004, that conque no longer has this usage, and to investigate its meaning in contemporary Mexican Spanish. The hypothesis is that it has a mirative value, specifically the type that Aikhenvald (2012) would call “new information for the speaker,” which can be accompanied by other mirative nuances such as “surprise” and “sudden discovery.”

Keywords : mirativity; conque; evidentiality; Mexican Spanish; subjectivity/subjectification.

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