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El sufijo -ero locativo-colectivo en el español atlántico

    Publication: Chapter in book/Conference proceedingChapter in edited volume

    Abstract

    This article describes the locative and colective use of -ero typical of Caribbean Spanish, of the type hojero 'mass of leaves'. It is shown that this linguistic peculiarity, which is normally resented as an Americanism, in reality is also present in nuce in the dialects of Andalusia and the Canary Islands, whence it was "exported" to the New World. From a historical perspective, the evolution of the suffix from locative to colective is described in detail, from Latin down to the present day.
    Original languageSpanish
    Title of host publicationProcesos morfológicos. Zonas de interferencia
    Editors Jesús Pena
    Place of PublicationSantiago de Compostela
    PublisherSecretariado de Publicaciones, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
    Pages141 - 176
    Publication statusPublished - 2017

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