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The Lexical Structure Of Spanish (janua Linguarum. Series Practica) by William Patterson, Hector Urrutibéheity is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
We recognize three major genealogical classes of words: inherited from Latin; borrowed from other languages; and created in Spanish by various formative processes. 1 In assigning words to genealogical classes, we have relied primarily on Joan Corominas' Diccionario critico etimologico de la lengua castellana, 2 and on his Breve diccionario etimologico de la lengua castellana? ## Inherited By 'inherited' we mean the words which used to constitute the vocabulary of the Vulgar Latin of Spain and which became the vocabulary of the earliest form of Spanish. Consisting essentially of Latin words, it also contains a number of elements borrowed by Vulgar Latin from the various substrata and adstrata of the peninsula. ## Latin Spanish words inherited from Latin are of two types: (1) POPULAR, whose shape conforms to the phonological rules which characterize the development of Vulgar Latin into Spanish: marido < MARITUM, diez < DECEM, bueno < BONUM, otro < ALTERUM; (2) SEMI-POPULAR, whose phonological shape, adjusted under learned influence, does not completely conform to the rules of Spanish sound change: fruto < FRUCTUM, fiesta < FESTA, siglo < SAECULUM. ## 1 We have not added a separate cl
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- Author
- William Patterson, Hector Urrutibéheity
- Publisher
- De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton
- Published
- 1975
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789027932075
- Category
- nonfiction