Quantifiers of factual proximity and counterfactuality in Spanish and other Romance languages: "un paso más y me mataba/habría matado"

Kronning, Hans ^[1]
1. [1] Uppsala University
  
  Uppsala University
  
  Uppsala domkyrkoförs., Suecia
Localización: Verb and context: The impact of shared knowledge on TAME categories / coord. por Susana Rodríguez Rosique, Jordi M. Antolí Martínez, 2023, ISBN 978-90-272-5499-3, págs. 149-170
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- Quantifiers of Factual Proximity (QFPs) are subconstructions (e.g. Spanish un paso más and French un pas de plus) of conditional constructions, as in Un paso más y me mataba/habría matado (‘One more step, and he would have killed me’). Indicating the proximity of realization of hypothetical eventualities or instants in the protasis, they have a propensity for co-occurring with axiologically marked eventualities (matar ‘kill’) in the apodosis, irrespective of its TAM-morphology (mataba, Imperfect Indicative ‘killed’, habría matado, Compound Conditional ‘would have killed’). Here we elaborate the conceptualization of QFPs for counterfactual conditionals in Romance languages with special emphasis on Spanish. The theoretical framework is Construction Grammar, more specifically Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 2008).