Por descontado. Creación de un marcador de evidencia

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dc.contributor.author	Herrero Ruiz de Loizaga Francisco Javier
dc.title	Por descontado. Creación de un marcador de evidencia
dc.type	Chapter
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dc.description.abstract	This paper studies the development of por descontado and the previous construction por de contado, which is attested from the 18th century. It comes from the prepositional phrase de contado, which originally had the meaning ‘in cash’, but in the 16th century acquires also the value ‘on the spot’. This slip is possible because what is paid in cash is paid on the spot. A subsequent slip leads to the value ‘of course’. Since the end of the 19th century, there are constructions of the type dar o tener por descontado, with the meaning ‘take for granted’, in which por descontado is a predicative complement of a noun clause. Given the similarity in meaning between these constructions and por de contado, there was a formal interference that led to the appearance of por descontado as a formal variant of the marker por de contado. This variant is attested from the beginning of the 20th century, and from the second half it becomes the dominant form.
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dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2019-12-14
dc.dateAccepted	2019-10-23
dc.dateSubmitted	2019-09-30
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-381-6/por-descontado-creacion-de-un-marcador-de-evidenci/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-381-6/003
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9158
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9948
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dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-381-6
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Certainty
dc.subject	Certainty
dc.subject	Confirmation
dc.subject	Confirmation
dc.subject	Discourse marker
dc.subject	Discourse marker
dc.subject	Epistemic marker
dc.subject	Epistemic marker
dc.subject	Evidentiality
dc.subject	Evidentiality
dc.subject	Grammaticalization
dc.subject	Grammaticalization

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Por descontado. Creación de un marcador de evidencia

Francisco Javier Herrero Ruiz de Loizaga Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Instituto Universitario Menéndez Pidal, España

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This paper studies the development of por descontado and the previous construction por de contado, which is attested from the 18th century. It comes from the prepositional phrase de contado, which originally had the meaning ‘in cash’, but in the 16th century acquires also the value ‘on the spot’. This slip is possible because what is paid in cash is paid on the spot. A subsequent slip leads to the value ‘of course’. Since the end of the 19th century, there are constructions of the type dar o tener por descontado, with the meaning ‘take for granted’, in which por descontado is a predicative complement of a noun clause. Given the similarity in meaning between these constructions and por de contado, there was a formal interference that led to the appearance of por descontado as a formal variant of the marker por de contado. This variant is attested from the beginning of the 20th century, and from the second half it becomes the dominant form.

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Dec. 14, 2019

Accepted

Oct. 23, 2019

Submitted

Sept. 30, 2019

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978-88-6969-381-6

Keywords: Grammaticalization • Discourse marker • Confirmation • Epistemic marker • Certainty • Evidentiality

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