Typology of the archaisms in The Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy in the first half of the 19th century

Abstract

This works establishes a typology of the archaisms present in the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy in the editions published in the first half of the 19th century. The interest in the archaic lexicon from the Dictionary of Authorities, in particular in its second edition of 1770, and the preferential attention shown in the later ones explains the attention archaisms received at this time. The procedures used to mark them and the changes by addition and deletion are taken into account. The characteristics of the archaisms are analyzed, from which it results that there were many more formal variants —graphical or morphological— than lexical variants, a variation that makes them show remission instead of definition. It is also discussed the difficulty in establishing the source of the archaic lexicon, an aspect of interest upon finding that their inclusion is greater in some editions than in others and that this inclusion affects a specific type of voices.

https://doi.org/10.17398/2660-7301.41.95