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Changes in Meaning and Function: Studies in historical linguistics with a focus on Spanish
Edited by Jorge Fernández Jaén and Herminia Provencio Garrigós
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 25] 2020
► pp. 221–236

In substance, they came from above

On the acquisition of discourse particles in Medieval Spanish

| University of Sevilla

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.

Keywords: Medieval Spanish, discourse traditions, historical sociolinguistics, en sustancia , discourse particles
Article outline
  • 1.Discourse particles: Ausbau and linguistic elaboration
    • 1.1The social gap of grammaticalization theory
    • 1.2Discourse particles that came from above: Social context and elaboration
  • 2.The history of the Spanish discourse particle en sustancia
    • 2.1 substantia and its legacy
    • 2.2Use of in sustancia in current Spanish
  • 3.Diachronic evolution of Spanish
    • 3.1Explanation of the linguistic change of en sustancia
  • 4.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 2 April 2020
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