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- As a result of language contact, loanwords from the pre-Roman languages of the Iberian Peninsula, Visigothic, Arabic, Gallo-Romance (northern and southern French), Portuguese, Catalan, Italian, classical Latin, native languages of the New World, and English have entered and taken root in the Spanish lexicon.
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Jun 7, 2012 · This history of the Spanish lexicon is written from the interacting perspectives of linguistic and cultural change and in the light of advances in the study of language contact and lexical change. The book describes the language inherited from spoken Latin in the Iberian Peninsula during six centuries of Roman occupation and examines the degree ...
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This distinction is especially important in evaluating the...
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1 Language contact and the history of the Spanish lexicon:...
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The diachronic study of the Spanish lexicon has a long and...
- Latinisms in Spanish
This chapter examines the introduction and incorporation of...
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Feb 15, 2024 · As a result of language contact, loanwords from the pre-Roman languages of the Iberian Peninsula, Visigothic, Arabic, Gallo-Romance (northern and southern French), Portuguese, Catalan, Italian, classical Latin, native languages of the New World, and English have entered and taken root in the Spanish lexicon.
Due to prolonged language contact with other languages, the Spanish lexicon contains loanwords from Basque, Hispano-Celtic ( Celtiberian and Gallaecian ), Iberian, Germanic ( Gothic ), Arabic and indigenous languages of the Americas .
The author describes the language inherited from spoken Latin in the Iberian Peninsula during six centuries of Roman occupation and examines the degree to which it imported words from the...
1. Language Contact and the History of the Spanish Lexicon: General and methodological questions. 2. The Lexical Impact of the Pre-Roman Languages of the Iberian Peninsula. 3. The Latin Base of the Spanish Lexicon. 4. The Germanic Component of the Spanish Lexicon. 5. The Arabic Component of the Spanish Lexicon. 6.
Abstract. This chapter examines selected lexical features of the Latin of the Iberian Peninsula. Much of the inherited Spanish lexicon has cognate lexical items in other Romance languages outside the Iberian Peninsula. The retention of Latin vocabulary that fell into disuse elsewhere is another feature of the Spanish lexicon.
Jun 7, 2012 · After outlining minor influences from languages such as Flemish, Portuguese, and Catalan, the book examines the effects on the lexicon of contact between Spanish and the indigenous languages of ...
