Verbos terminados en -ificar desde una perspectiva diacrónica: un análisis preliminar de corpus
Verbs ending in -ificar from a diachronic perspective: a preliminary corpus-based analysis

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the incorporation of verbs ending in -ificar into Spanish from a historical perspective. Our analysis is based on the Spanish corpus CORDE and covers the period between the 13th and the first half of the 20th centuries. The qualitative part of the analysis takes for its objective to observe the nominal or adjectival character of the bases used in the verbs ending in -ificar and, further, their Latin or Spanish origin. At the same time, we observe in each 50-year time period (starting in 1200 and ending in 1950) their type frequency, i.e. how the number of verbs varies, which verbs newly appear in the Spanish lexicon and which ones, on the contrary, disappear from usage. In the quantitative analysis, we compare the token frequency of these forms (and their derivates) in each 50-year time period.

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