Abstract

ALBA-SALAS, Josep. Paradigmatic realignment in reiterative structures with state and quality nouns: cobrar, recobrar and recuperar in diachrony. Leng. [online]. 2011, vol.39, n.2, pp.333-362. ISSN 0120-3479.

This corpus study analyzes the use of three Spanish verbs meaning 'to recover' (recobrar, recuperar and -in earlier stages of the language- cobrar) with state and quality nouns (e.g. fuerza 'strength' and importancia 'importance') from the 1200s to the present day. The results show that cobrar -which predominated in Medieval Spanish- was replaced by recobrar in the 1700s, but recuperar became the most frequent verb from the 1900s. These changes apparently spread through lexical diffusion, culminating a process of lexical and paradigmatic realignment that affected not only the structures under consideration, but also other uses of cobrar, recobrar and recuperar

Keywords : cobrar; recobrar; recuperar; inchoative; reiterative; lexical diffusion; semantic change; paradigmatic realignment.

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