Independientemente de y más allá de: adverbios convertidos en conjunciones

Abstract

Concessive conjunctions constitute a set that admits, with enough plasticity, the incorporation of new elements. Thus, it can be noticed that, as indicated by Báez San José et al. (2013), más allá de and independientemente de are relatively substitutable by the conjunction aunque, together with al margen de, independiente de and con independencia de.

In this work I will attempt to explain the conversion of the deictic adverb allá and the deadjectival adverb independientemente in the constructions that they constitute, in prepositive and conjunctive locutions. As prepositive forms, they introduce a complement in relation to a verb; as conjunctions, they introduce conditional concessive or concessive protases. Both mas allá de and independientemente de can function as a concessive link from a metaphorical scheme by which the ‘distance’ or ‘non-dependence’ that they express in their adverbial uses are projected to the combinatorial between discursive segments as’ irrelevance of casual link’, that is to say, the protases that they introduce remain ‘outside’ or ‘do not follow’ a causal relation with respect to the apodosis; thus, they are “indifferent” (Cortés Portezuelos 1993, 1997) to the achievement of what is stated in the main clause.