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This study analyses aspects of non-verbal morphology and syntax recorded in a rural district in interior Galicia (O Ribeiro, Ourense province). The data for this study was obtained through questionnaire-based interviews with thirty people from ten different places. This data was complemented with the transcription of semi-structured interviews with the same individuals. The purpose of this research is to establish how the variants of the variables studied are subject to processes of linguistic variation and change, observable in the linguistic usage of three groups of people of different ages. The appearance of different variants is due both to internal factors (analogy or simplification of the system) and external factors (contact with other linguistic varieties); the expansion of some of them is attributable to contact with Castilian or with other similar Galician varieties.

This paper includes the edition and study of five unpublished Galician-Portuguese documents kept in the Torre do Tombo Archive and produced in Portugal between the end of the 12th century (ca. 1188-1192) and 1270. The earliest one is a notícia relating to the inquiry process whereby a property in Friamil (Castelo de Paiva) was returned to the royal control. Due to its chronological location, it becomes part of the tiny group of documents in Portuguese that can be ascribed to the last decades of the 12th century. The second writing (1243), in addition to being one of the first examples of a dispositive nature written in Romance, contains a graphic novelty of great relevance: the first uses of the supralinear stroke as a diacritic of vowel nasality. The third part of this article includes three documents from the second half of the 13th century, each of them with unique characteristics. The earliest one, the economic report prepared for Rui Garcia de Paiva by two of his vassals (ca. 1265), approaches to the epistolary genre, which is shown, at the linguistic level, by expressive aspects that are novel outside the literary domain. As for the contract established between that same Rui Garcia and the Order of Santiago in 1268, among other noteworthy features, it serves as an example of the influence exerted by an allochthonous model of writing, in this case Castilian, in Portuguese territory. The last text, written in 1270 by Gil Vicente, is a precious example of the refined mastery of graphic resources, almost close to the normative model of the time.

En este artículo se analizan, con la ayuda del aparato teórico de la lingüística cognitiva, unas muestras de cruce deonomástico, lo que supone una contribución novedosa a la formación de palabras en español y a la deonomástica. La conclusión que se obtiene es que, aunque los cruces deonomásticos se crean a partir de esquemas consolidados en la lengua, su procesamiento es altamente dependiente de la información discursiva y contextual en la que aparece cada muestra. Por tanto, se propone que el estudio del cruce deonomástico abandone el uso de muestras aisladas y descontextualizadas.

La historia del léxico español ha encontrado una valiosa fuente de información en los inventarios de bienes incluidos en documentos notariales. Los inventarios registran un léxico marcado, el de la vida cotidiana, que no siempre formaba parte de obras que sirvieron como base para elaborar los diccionarios académicos. Los inventarios localizados en Protocolos del siglo xviii conservados en el Archivo Histórico Provincial de Burgos ofrecen ejemplos de las adaptaciones hechas por los escribanos sobre voces extranjeras llegadas a la vez que nuevas modas y objetos. Se analizarán en este trabajo palabras pertenecientes a este léxico marcado, cuyo interés desde el punto de vista filológico reside en la dificultad de la traducción directa y en la documentación temprana de dichas voces en el idioma español.

O día 28 de outubro de 2021 faleceu o profesor Jesús Pena, catedrático da área de Lingua española da USC e membro do Consello de Redacción da revista Verba entre os anos 1991 e 2010. Ramón Mariño, secretario primeiro e director despois da revista, rememora a súa relación persoal co mestre e co amigo. Graça Rio-Torto, da Universidade de Coimbra, amiga e morfóloga como Jesús, evoca a súa traxectoria académica e lembra ao compañeiro e amigo que nos deixou.