Synchronic vitality of Catalanisms in American Spanish

• María Teresa Cáceres-Lorenzo ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

     Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

     Gran Canaria, España

     
• Localización: Literatura y lingüística, ISSN 0717-621X, ISSN-e 0716-5811, Nº. 49, 2024, págs. 455-484
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Words of Catalan origin introduced into the Castilian Spanish language in different centuries are recorded here in a project collating Americanised vocabulary using texts from different periods. These words are recorded as Catalanisms in theDiccionario de la Lengua Española (RAE, 2023) and appear in the Diccionario de Americanismos (RAE & ASALE, 2010) with different degrees of vitality. They demonstrate adoption processes, the creation of new lexical units and meanings in their diachronic development of transmission. These lexies are preferentially analysed using a quantitative methodology, according to usage trends in the Spanish Golden Age, their American meaning, lexical field and distribution in American linguistic areas. The results show that these words were already integrated into Castilian Spanish before its expansion to American, and their trend of vitality coincides with other contributions from patrimonial words Hispanicised in America.