"In substance", they came from above: on the acquisition of discourse particles in Medieval Spanish
-
-
[1] Universidad de Sevilla
Universidad de Sevilla
Sevilla, España
-
- Localización: Changes in meaning and function: Studies in historical linguistics with a focus on Spanish / coord. por Jorge Fernández Jaén, Herminia Provencio Garrigós, 2020, ISBN 978-90-272-0536-0, págs. 221-235
- Idioma: inglés
- Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
-
Resumen
This paper presents a study on discourse particles in the history of the Spanish language. The research focuses on explaining the socio-cultural context which led to the appearance of some particles by means other than those contemplated in the theory of grammaticalization. By monitoring the history of the discourse particle en sustancia we explain how many of the changes undergone in the Spanish language in the plane of textual construction came from above, were taken directly from the medieval Latin of books and inserted into communicative distance texts, subsequently spreading to become standard.
