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TOWARDS A TYPOLOGY OF VARIANT FORMS IN SPANISH PROVERBS FROM A DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVE

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Some proverbs with a parallel structure and/or with a symmetrical pattern in Spanish have evolved from the 16 th century if their syntactic structure and lexis are to be compared with their counterparts as they are known and used today. A study of variant forms has been carried out with a sample of proverbs from the 16 th-century Refranes y proverbios by Hernán Núñez by contrasting them with the synchronic canonical forms as found in the Refranero Multilingüe (RM) from the Centro Virtual Cervantes and in Mil y un refranes españoles (Sevilla Muñoz & Cantera Ortiz de Urbina 2008). The general trend is towards reduction, shortening or truncation as in A mal hecho, ruego y pecho > A lo hecho, pecho, although counterexamples are also possible, although extremely scarce (El que parte, toma la mejor parte > El que parte y reparte se queda con la mejor parte). Three main phenomena have been observed, firstly the truncation of a whole part of bipartite or tripartite proverbs, originally oppositional, that have evolved mainly into non-oppositional with a single descriptive element. Secondly, a series of lexico-grammatical changes, usually in the second part of bipartite proverbs and thirdly, instances of variation by substitution of one of the nominal or adjectival constituents for a synonymous term—a semantic-related one or even another term bearing little or no semantic relation whatsoever.
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Ramon Marti Solano. TOWARDS A TYPOLOGY OF VARIANT FORMS IN SPANISH PROVERBS FROM A DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVE. "Proverbiogenesis: the phases of proverbial birth",Proceedings of the 9th Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Proverbs, 2016. ⟨hal-01640189⟩
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