In the following work, we explore the thesis of Andrés Bello (1847) on an apparent identity between the particles si and sí. Thus, we describe the historical origin of these particles and the values that they have codified both in medieval and modern Spanish. Moreover, we present an overview of the tradition of authors who, directly or indirectly, have approached to Bello's proposal, either in Spanish or in other languages. Therefore, the systematic analysis of data leads us to qualify the idea of a correspondence between all sies.
Keywords:
Andrés Bello, conditional Si, Interrogative Si, Adverbial Si
Garrido Sepúlveda, C. (2019). About semantic and grammatical correspondence between síes: notes for a state of the art. Boletín De Filología, 54(1), pp. 203–230. Retrieved from https://boletinfilologia.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/53535
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