Revista de Historia de la Lengua Española

Review of Textos para la historia del español XV: Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial / María Agujetas Ortiz. Alcalá de Henares: Editorial Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, 2022.

Roxana Denisa Marica — 2023-12-13

Review of Tradiciones discursivas y tradiciones idiomáticas en la historia del español moderno / Araceli López Serena, Santiago del Rey Quesada y Elena Carmona Yanes (eds.). Berlin etc.: Peter Lang, 2020.

Francisco Alonso de la Torre Gutiérrez — 2023-12-13

Review of La llingua n'Asturies al traviés de los sieglos / Xulio Viejo Fernández. Xixón: Conseyería de Cultura, Política Llingüística y Turismu / Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte / Trea, 2022

Patricia Fernández Martín — 2023-12-13

Review of La configuración histórica del discurso: nuevas perspectivas en los procesos de gramaticalización, lexicalización y pragmaticalización / F. Javier Herrero Ruiz de Loizaga, M. Elena Azofra Sierra y Rosario González Pérez (eds.). Madrid / Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2022.

Silvia Iglesias Recuero — 2023-12-13

Review of El español en su historia. Textos y contextos / M.ª Elena Azofra Sierra. Madrid: UNED, 2022.

Marina Espejel Martínez — 2023-12-13

Review of La obra de Oronce Finé en español: estudio y edición de la traducción de "Los dos libros de la geometría práctica" / Francisco Javier Sánchez Martín. Granada: Comares, 2023.

Ángel de la Torre Sánchez — 2023-12-13

Bibliographical notes on “La oración simple en la prosa castellana del siglo XV"

Emilio Fernández Viejo — 2023-12-13

The interpretation and analysis of La oración simple en la prosa castellana del siglo XV, Professor Antonio Meilán García’s doctoral thesis, allows us to reconsider, thirty years after its publication, its methodological advantages, its contributions to Historical Syntax studies, as well as to unearth possible limitations in its analyses, observed at a greater distance. Amid an overview of historical studies such as the current one, defined by the proliferation of cognitivist and discursive approaches to Diachronic Syntax, this paper aims to defend the validity of the structural-functional method of the Oviedo school in the study of the historical grammar by presenting one of its main achievements, Professor Meilán’s work. Throughout these pages, some examples used by Professor Meilán in his historical study of 15th century syntax will be shown. To sustain our reflection, specific explanations included in the thesis will be mentioned and accompanied by the theoretical reflections that support them, with a solid structuralist imprint, since this work could not be understood without the approaches on diachrony from André Martinet and Eugenio Coseriu. Throughout these pages, some examples used by Professor Meilán in his historical study of 15th century syntax will be shown. To sustain our reflection, specific explanations included in the thesis will be mentioned and accompanied by the theoretical reflections that support them, with a solid structuralist imprint, since this work could not be understood without the approaches on diachrony from André Martinet and Eugenio Coseriu.

The phonological context of the maintenance of the etymological F in Spanish

Yohei Mishima — 2023-12-13

In the Spanish language, the etymological F, on the one hand, changes to aspirated /h/ with the subsequent loss of its phonetic value or to /b/ and, on the other hand, it is preserved in parts of some words, especially, when conditioned by semi-consonants /j, w/ and liquids /l, r/. This article deals with the persistence of /f/ in Spanish with special attention to the consonant clusters of /fj, fw/ and /fl, fr/ from the perspective of Romance linguistics. First, we investigate the state of the F in Spanish and the explanations given about the maintenance of /f/. Secondly, we analyze the conservation of /f/ in all the Romance dialects that present /h/ (or /ø/), derived from /f/, outside the Iberian Peninsula: Gascon, the Nuorese dialect of Sardinian and some dialects of Italian and Romanian. Finally, with all the observations, we identify the phonological conditions that tend to preserve /f/ in the Romance dialects in which /f/ > /h/ (o /ø/) occurs. Furthermore, we estimate that the phonological distribution of /f/ that current Spanish has in comparison with other Romance dialects mentioned is not peculiar and we argue that the basis of the phonological distribution of /f/ in current Spanish would already existed in primitive Castilian Romance.

Incorporation and settlement of "at(h)leta" in Spanish

David Carmona Centeno — 2023-12-13

Our study pursues three objectives. Firstly, it exposes the difficulties encountered by the word at(h)leta to be incorporated and firmly settled in the Spanish language in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries through an exhaustive review of a large part of the translations of works of Greek and Latin authors produced in this same period. The second objective is to establish the importance for this slow process of the fact that translat-ers preferred the notion of athlete as someone who competes or is an expert in a fighting event, which is how it appears in many Latin texts, resulting in the frequent use of the native Spanish word luchador. Thirdly, our study wants to provide a more reliable image of the first steps of the Greekism and thus broaden the panorama offered by the CNDHE.

The use of the diminutive as a strategy of subjetivization in "General estoria"

Enrique Pato — 2023-12-13

This work analyzes the use of the diminutive forms in -i(e)llo documented in the General estoria and the values of diminution (asnillo) and valuation (ladronciello) with those are used in this Alfonso’s historiograph-ical work. In the first place, it relates the various theoretical works carried out on diminutives and offers a general review of their use as a subjectivization strategy. Next, it presents the variation in the forms -iello/-illo, the number of registered cases and the types of words with which this suffix appears (nouns and adjectives). Finally, it focuses attention on the examination of the data obtained, exemplifying the values of the diminutive voices in people, animals and objects.

The punctuation in the Alfonsine manuscripts

Pedro Sánchez-Prieto Borja — 2023-12-13

The present study is a quantitative approach to the punctuation of the First and Fourth parts of General estoria, Estoria de España, Lapidario, Cruzes and Ajedrez codices, but interpreting the data in the light of a broad vision of the 13th century manuscripts, its elaboration process and its function in the genesis, diffusion and reception of knowledge. In the case of Alfonsine textual production, codices and documents must be distinguished, with differences between them in the paleographic, graphic, phonetic, morphosyntactic and lexical aspects, as well as in the conformation of the discourse. Punctuation could not escape this double manifestation of Alfonsine writing. In addition, significant differences are observed between the different codices, which may point to the uniqueness of some of them, such as Lapidario and Ajedrez, while the differences between the historiographical codices are minor. All of this could make punctuation a school mark, within the Alfonsine book production and, perhaps, a reflection of the chronology and place of elaboration of the royal manuscripts.

The neological vocabulary of gastronomy in 19th century Spanish

Josefa Gómez de Enterría — 2023-12-13

This paper is an approach to the new specialty vocabulary of nineteenth-century gastronomy in Spanish. The aim is to describe some of the lexicogenetic processes that facilitate the birth of the new lexicon, taking as a starting point a textual and a lexicographical corpus. The textual corpus is made up of a set of treatises and manuals on gastronomy and cookery; the lexicographical corpus is made up of specialty dictionaries and the repertoires that make up the Real Academia Española’s Nuevo Tesoro de la lengua española (New Treasury of the Spanish Language).

Talking to think: the advance of verbs of cause in Spanish

Javier Elvira González — 2023-12-13

The main goal of this work is to contribute to the knowledge of the origin and development of a specific type of verbs that express cause-effect relationships and other relationships implicitly or associatively related to them. The data examined show that the development of these verbs is closely linked to the presence of nouns of a predicative nature, especially deverbal or deadjectival nominalizations. This work examines the expressive mechanisms that have allowed the growth of this peculiar type of verbs, closely linked to written language. The comparison with some data from the psychology of language shows that the type of language generated by nominalizations and verbs of cause displays significant coincidences with the psychological phenomenon of inner speech. These similarities suggest that the syntax of verbs of cause is based on a functional displacement of language from the domain of dialogue, communication, and interaction between speakers to the field of a new monologistic language that serves as a basis for thought and reflection.