Grammaticalization of the pronoun usted into a clitic -ste in Peruvian Spanish in the Southern Part of the Amazonas Department; [Grammaticalisation du pronom usted en un clitique -ste en espagnol péruvien parlé dans la partie sud du département d’Amazonas]

Valqui J.; Oisel G. · Boletin de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua (2022) · DOI: 10.46744/bapl.202202.005

Resumen

The aim of this paper is to give an account of the process of grammaticalization of the tonic personal pronoun usted used as the clitic -ste in the Spanish spoken in the Southern Part of the Amazonas Department (Peru). Based on the semantic, morphosyntactic and phonological analysis, this grammaticalization process has given rise to a clitic that provides the sense of ‘distanciation or correctness’ between the interlocutors of a discursive event. The main conclusions report that the clitic -ste, a product of the grammaticalization of the pronoun usted, characterizes a variety of North Peruvian Andean Spanish, also attested in the Andean provinces of La Libertad, some provinces of Cajamarca and Ancash, and in Lower Piura (Andrade, 2016, 2018, 2019).

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos