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- Title
LAS REFLEXIONES DE SARMIENTO A LAS ETIMOLOGÍAS DEL DICCIONARIO DE AUTORIDADES.
- Authors
RÍOS, ENRIQUE JIMÉNEZ
- Abstract
In this article we examine the reflections made by Father Martín Sarmiento (1695-1772) concerning the etymologies in first dictionary published by the Spanish Royal Academy, the Diccionario de Autoridades. In doing so we compare his idea of etymology with that of the Academy, as posited in its Discurso proemial sobre las etimologías, and with that of other eighteenth century authors, such as Gregorio Mayans in his Orígenes de la lengua castellana. What we find is the originality of the etymological thought of the Benedictine father when he affords more importance to the signifier than the signified in the search for the etymon of a word and explains formal changes not as mere transformations of letters, but as the effect of the action of the organs of articulation.
- Publication
Epos, 2013, Issue 29, p101
- ISSN
0213-201X
- Publication type
Article