"Excepto que": a locution between the exception and the condition

Abstract

The authors who study the conditionality affirm the interrelationship of the notion of 'condition' with other adverbial related values to it, for example, temporality, concession, causality, exception, etc. Though the temporary nexus constitute one of five principal historical producers of conditional connectors, the relation of the conditionality and the exception, which you can document from the origins of the language, is very productive and varied, because the paradigm of the conditional-exceptive sentences has been renewed throughout the time, according to the renovation experienced by the mechanisms of expression of the 'exception'. Nevertheless, in spite of his philologic interest, this type of conditional constructions has not be en much studied. In the same way, not only we can find phrases which sense is formed (trained) by the conjunction of these two values, but also in the Spanish language a nexus exists like excepto que, which (who), according to the contexts, can express a conditional exceptive or only an exception to exposed in the principal proposition. Our study is going to analyze from his origins of Spanish which are the conditions (modal combination, verbal correlation, discursive tradition, context,...) that determine a value or other one.