On the External and Internal Factors of the Penetration of Germanic Loans in the Iberian Peninsula

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https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-0319.25.07

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Latin, Iberian Peninsula, Spanish, Germanic borrowings, routes of penetration, external and internal factors, structural, lexical and semantic features

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to define, delimitate and explain the most important external and internal factors of the penetration of Germanic elements (mainly Visigothic) in the Iberian Peninsula, with special attention to the V–VIII centuries. The author analyses the political and linguistic situation in the Iberian Peninsula and indicates the textual sources of the above-mentioned period. He also makes some observations regarding the routes of penetration and presents some structural, lexical and semantic features of the Germanic borrowings. In his final remarks the author comments on the difference between direct and indirect loans and points out the possibility of the interaction between different external and internal factors, for example, phonetic, lexical and semantic changes connected with the evolution wisa > guisa.

Author Biography

  • Wiaczesław Nowikow, University of Łódź

    is the founder and professor at the Department of Spanish Philology of the University of Lodz. He is the author of over 100 publications (6 monographs) on diachronic and synchronic issues in Spanish and comparative linguistics which were published in Poland, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Czech Republic, Slovakia, etc. Prof. Nowikow is the initiator and director of the publishing series “Manufactura Hispánica Lodziense” (University of Lodz) and the founder of the biannual congress “Foro de Lingüística Hispánica” (Poland). He is a corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy (RAE: Real Academia Española).

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2022-12-16

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No. 25 (2022): Romanorum Hiberumque Conexio Per Saecula Firmissima

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Nowikow, Wiaczesław. 2022. “On the External and Internal Factors of the Penetration of Germanic Loans in the Iberian Peninsula”. Collectanea Philologica, no. 25 (December): 95-104. https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-0319.25.07.
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