Macrosintaxis de la construcción «no (te) creas»

This paper describes, using data from the CORPES XXI and the MESA CORPUS, the different syntactic configurations that the construction no (te) creas adopts in discourse. It acts as a free verbal syntagm in a sentence and also as an independent intonational unit, with mobility in the utterance. Its different behavior is analyzed from a pragmatic linguistic methodology and a macrosyntactic approach, considering its appearance as a free, semi-free and fixed construction. In the latter case, the study investigates whether the construction has undergone a co-optation process (Heine 2013) that makes it function as a thetical (Kaltenböck/Heine/ Kuteva 2011), that is, as a discursive operator or semi-free construction (Goldberg 1995; Gras/Sansiñena 2015). The procedural content it expresses and its function in the textual macrostructure are also delimited.