dequeísmo

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Spanish

Examples
  • *Me alegra de que sean felices.
    I'm glad that they're happy.
  • Me alegra que sean felices. (standard)
  • Me alegro de que sean felices. (alternative)

Etymology

From de que +‎ -ismo.

Noun

dequeísmo m (plural dequeísmos)

  1. (linguistics) the nonstandard use of de que instead of que alone as a complementizer
    Antonym: queísmo
    • 2001, Carmen Silva-Corvalán, Sociolingüística y pragmática del español [Spanish sociolinguistics and pragmatics], →ISBN, page 188:
      Se esperaría mayor porcentaje de dequeísmo cuando el sujeto de la oración principal es impersonal, que cuando es tercera o segunda persona, y que cuando es primera persona (en este orden), dados los diferentes grados de participación en (o distanciamiento de) la aserción codificada en la oración principal asociados con los posibles sujetos de tal aserción.
      A greater percentage of dequeísmo would be expected when the subject of the main sentence is impersonal than when it's third or second person and than when it's first person (in that order), given the different degrees of participation in (or distancing from) the codified assertion in the main sentence associated with the possible subjects of said assertion.

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