Resumen de Recomplementation in Old Spanish - que as a Versatile Pragmatic Marker

Kristin Føsker Hagemann

• This paper is a qualitative study of a limited number of recomplementation structures in Old Spanish, isolating at least three different pragmatic uses connected to speech acts. The study shows that second que was a versatile marker with core functions connected to indirect and direct assertion. It is shown that the sandwiched material in structures with recomplementation belong to the higher fields of the left periphery, but that contrary to a 2007 analysis by Sandra Paoli, they are not always topical in nature, and second que can therefore not merely be a topic marker. It is argued that second que in its most neutral version is the lexicalization of a speech act-operator, generating a speaker deixis-projection such as that suggested in a 2006 paper by Liliane Haegeman, and compatible with the analysis proposed for interrogative clauses in 2013 by Carlos De Cuba and Jonathan E. MacDonald, as well as Francesc González i Planas’ pragmatic analyses for Modern Spanish, shedding light on the development of second que in the history of Spanish.