La incorporación de los préstamos españoles en el caló: la rivalidad entre sufijos a la luz del corpus
The Incorporation of Spanish Loanwords in Caló: Rivalry Among Suffixes in the Light of the Corpus

Summary/Abstract: In the article we deal with the evolution of the means of incorporation of Spanish loanwords in Caló, from the 15th to the 19th century. In the first evolutional phase of Caló we can observe the incorporation of verbs and nouns through Romani derivational morphology of Greek origin. In further phases there is a special set of derivational suffixes that originated from Romani, but that have homophone counterparts in Spanish also. Our hypothesis is that Spanish/Caló bilingual speakers may have been influenced by the principle of analogy when choosing particular suffixes from the variety of derivational morphology elements available in Romani. We examine and compare data found in Caló documents and in a diachronic corpus of Spanish.

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