The emphatic Es construction of Colombian spanish

Abstract

While it might appear that this emphatic es construction is just a pseudo-cleft with the determiner and relative marker omitted, things are not that simple. There are pseudo-cleft sentences which cannot be made into emphatic es examples, and emphatic es examples which cannot be turned into pseudo-clefts. Thus the pseudo-cleft sentence (4) is potentially still an acceptable sentence if the determiner (lo) and the relative marker (que) are omitted, but it has a distinct meaning in this case as indicated in (5), with a comparative rather than a superlative reading. In the reverse case, the emphatic es example in (6) cannot be converted to a pseudo-cleft by adding lo que.

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