Sobre el origen de la conjunción que en Español

A long-debated issue in Romance linguistics has been the source of the conjunction QUE. Among the forms to be candidates, some phonetic problems arise for QUOD and QUIA, and some syntactic ones for QUID, QUI, QUAE and QUEM. In order to postulate the original form of the Hispanic conjunction QUE, this paper analyzes the use of all these forms in the medieval Hispanic documentation prior to the year 1000. Our conclusion, after the analysis of the texts, is that the Spanish conjunction comes from the nominative masculine singular of the relative pronoun QUI.Álvarez Huerta Olga. Sobre el origen de la conjunción que en Español. In: Latin vulgaire – latin tardif IX. Actes du IXe colloque international sur le latin vulgaire et tardif, Lyon 2-6 septembre 2009. Lyon : Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 2012. pp. 413-424. (Collection de la Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen ancien. Série philologique, 49