Suffixal Rivalries in Medieval Spanish

Medieval Hispano-Romance was rich in neologisms created through suffixal derivation. Almost all the suffixes in question were inherited from Latin through oral transmission. Over time, as Spanish became more elaborated for use as a literary and scholarly language, new derivatives entered as Latinism...

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Autor: Dworkin, Steven N.
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:202629
Acesso em linha:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/202629
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Suffixal derivation
Suffixal rivalries
Deverbal nouns
Latinisms
Derivación sufijal
Rivalidad entre sufijos
Substantivos deverbales
Latinismos
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Resumo:Medieval Hispano-Romance was rich in neologisms created through suffixal derivation. Almost all the suffixes in question were inherited from Latin through oral transmission. Over time, as Spanish became more elaborated for use as a literary and scholarly language, new derivatives entered as Latinisms, often creating situations of rivalry between derivatives with vernacular and Latinate suffixes. This short paper will offer an introduction to the rivalry of deverbal abstract nouns in -miento with synonymous and functionally-similar derivatives showing Latinate suffixes, especially -ciónand -ancia, -encia. The lists of Old Spanish -miento derivatives in Pattison (1975) and in Penny (1987) form the core of the data base for this study.