Resumen de A Corpus Analysis of Sentence-Initial "Lo que": A Constructionist Approach
The present paper is concerned with sentence-initial Lo que ‘What’ – a so-called “copulativa enfática de relativo” (NGLE 2009: 3024). The focus marker Lo que is considered a construction because its form, function and even meaning are not strictly predictable from its component parts. The work with the CREA and CORDE shows that the construction’s frequency has increased over time so that the construction can nowadays be said to occur “with sufficient frequency” (Goldberg 2006: 5; cf. also Hilpert’s concept of constructional change, 2013).
