Aproximación a la descripción lingüística del vesre porteño
Approach to linguistic description of vesre of Buenos Aires

Author(s): Piotr Sorbet
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: vesre; Argentina; lunfardo; American Spanish; vesreism
Summary/Abstract: The vesre of Buenos Aires is, apparently, a linguistic phenomenon which has been rarely studied and is known only in a limited way. Its analysis is quite difficult for several reasons. First, because its components often belong to the spoken discourse, and therefore the lexicographic sources often do not include them at all, or they are incorporated in a strongly arbitrarily way. Second, the words that may be considered as vesreisms (Sp. vesreísmos), depending on a dictionary, are treated in different ways. For these reasons, the research conducted in the present paper aims to explain the premises necessary to investigate the vesre of Buenos Aires linguistically as well as to analyse several dictionaries in order to make certain lexicographic observations.

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