Intención, cortesía y relevancia enunciativa: Gramaticalización de la construcción querer+infinitivo en lengua española

The present work aims to make an analysis of the construction querer+ infinitive based on the grammaticalization process in the Grammatical Component (HENGEVELD, 2017). For this purpose, we constituted a corpus based on the investiture speeches of two candidates for prime minister of the Spanish government. In general terms, we verify that the querer+infinitive construct operates on both the Configurational Property layer (Representational Level)-, functioning as a volitive modalizer for the expression of the intentions of the speaker, and on the layer of the Discursive Act (Interpersonal Level), in which it acts as a discursive element by expressing politeness or to act in the manifestation of the enunciative relevance of what the construction takes as the scope from of the interaction context.