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Diccionarios como testigos de la historia del léxico espaňol: el caso de los gitanismos en el espaňol cubano y su presencia en las obras lexicográficas de Esteban Pichardo y de Fernando Ortiz
| Title in English | Dictionaries as witnesses of the history of Spanish lexicon: the case of Gypsy loanwords in Esteban Pichardo's and Fernando Ortiz's dictionaries |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Cuadernos del Instituto Historia de la Lengua |
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| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | historical lexicography; differential lexicography; history of vocabulary; Spanish in Latin America; loanwords of Gypsy origin |
| Description | The aim of the paper is to keep studying the history of loanwords of Gypsy origin according to the way they are treated in differential dictionaries of Latin American Spanish. Today we have taken into consideration two dictionaries of Cuban Spanish, Diccionario provincial, by Esteban Pichardo (1836, 1849, 1862 y 1875), and Un catauro de cubanismos, by Fernando Ortiz (1923). Although in numbers our results are quite modest, we are firmly convinced that from the qualitative point of view their value for the history of Spanish in Cuba during the period between 1820 and 1920 approximately should not be neglected. Another factor that we have to take into account is the historical and social-cultural background that is present in every dictionary and that is a vital condition for the structure of their macro and microstructures. In order to verify the data given by dictionaries, we always try to look for a complementary textual documentation for every lexical item we study here. |