Chapter 3
The history of concatenative compounds in Spanish
This article analyses Spanish concatenative compounds, whose constituents are of the same lexical category and structural
hierarchy (e.g., rojinegro ‘red-black’), focusing in particular on the evolution of their formal
features. The first issue considered is the relative frequency of various structural configurations, namely, overt
coordination ([XconjX]), linking vowel -i- ([XiX]), and
juxtaposition ([XX]). The second issue is whether the linking vowel -i- is etymologically
related to coordination. I propose that linking vowels can better be analysed as stem markers, distinguishing full lexemes
from combining stems. Support for this proposal comes from the fact that the linking vowel was attested earlier in head-final
compounds (barbirrapado ‘beardless’, lit. ‘beard-shaven’), where it generalised
before spreading to concatenatives.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Background
- 2.1Concatenative compounding in historical perspective
- 2.2The Latin origins of the linking vowel -i-
- 3.Concatenative compounding in Spanish
- 3.1Types of concatenative compounds
- 3.2History of concatenative compounds in Spanish
- 4.Methodology: Sources, data collection, classification and quantification
- 5.Findings
- 5.1Frequency of structural patterns in Spanish concatenative compounds
- 5.2Structural variability of concatenative compounds
- 5.3Historical relationship between concatenative compound variants
- 6.An alternative hypothesis
- 7.Conclusions
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Acknowledgements
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Notes
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