Semantic change in the history of Spanish word formation

• Autores: Franz Rainer
• Localización: The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology / coord. por Antonio Fábregas Alfaro, Víctor Acedo Matellán, Grant Amstrong, María Cristina Cuervo, Isabel Pujol Payet, 2021, ISBN 978-0-429-31819-1, págs. 430-440
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This chapter provides an overview of the most important processes operative in semantic change in word formation. While semantic change in word formation by definition leads to polysemy, not all cases of polysemy are the result of semantic change. A pair of patterns with identical forms but different meanings can also be the result, from a diachronic point of view, of the conflation of two patterns that in origin were formally distinct. Polysemy can also arise by way of borrowing. In fact, many cases of polysemy in Spanish word formation did not arise by internal semantic change but by imitating a foreign model. Absorption is a term introduced by Darmesteter. It can be illustrated with one of the most common processes of semantic change in the history of Latin and the Romance languages. Many Romance suffixes, in fact, have their origin in relational adjectives that became nouns when head of noun phrase they were part of dropped out of language.