El desarrollo del artículo indefinido en español medieval y clásico
This paper offers a quantitative diachronic study of the developmentof Spanish un, from its cardinal value to its use as an indefinite article.Based on a corpus comprising texts from the thirteenth to theseventeenth century, I present an analysis and a chronology of themain changes undergone by un t...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2012 |
| País: | México |
| Recursos: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repositório: | Nueva revista de Filología Hispánica |
| Idioma: | espanhol |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.nrfh.colmex.mx:article/1056 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://nrfh.colmex.mx/index.php/nrfh/article/view/1056 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Diachronic linguistics Indefinite article grammaticalization semantic change Lingüística diacrónica artículo indefinido gramaticalización cambio semántico |
| Resumo: | This paper offers a quantitative diachronic study of the developmentof Spanish un, from its cardinal value to its use as an indefinite article.Based on a corpus comprising texts from the thirteenth to theseventeenth century, I present an analysis and a chronology of themain changes undergone by un throughout this period, notably itsincreasing use as a marker of non-specific indefinites, and its furtherincorporation in generic noun phrases and predicates. Additionally,demonstrate that the development of the plural indefinite determinerunos is, with a few restrictions, parallel to that of its singularcounterpart, not only in its increasing frequency rate, but also in itsintroduction into new contexts. |
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