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Title: | On the Latin Origins of Spanish mediante |
Author: | Artigas, Esther |
Keywords: | Preposicions Llatí Castellà (Llengua) Prepositions Latin language Spanish language |
Issue Date: | 28-Feb-2019 |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Abstract: | This paper aims to contribute to the clarification of the linguistic and extra-linguistic circumstances that accompany the emergence and behavior of mediante in the first centuries of Spanish. To this end, the origin of the Latin participle medians, mediantis is examined and the evidence of its ablative form mediante in various contexts is also analysed and discussed. We conclude from our study that (1) the appearance of mediante in Latin takes place at a relatively late stage of Latin, it having entered the language as a grammatical calque from Greek; (2) in Latin, prepositional values of mediante, which do not necessarily originate from Latin absolute ablative clauses, are already detected; and finally, (3) discursive traditions and historical-cultural factors, in particular those developed in Patristic and Scholastic Literature, are fundamental for the understanding, not only of the evolution of mediante in Latin, but also of its introduccion into Spanish. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3390/languages4010015 |
It is part of: | Languages, 2019, p. 4-15 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/152977 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.3390/languages4010015 |
ISSN: | 2226-471X |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Filologia Clàssica, Romànica i Semítica) |
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