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On the Latin Origins of Spanish mediante

Esther Artigas

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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.

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Philosophy

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Esther Artigas

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Artigas, E. (2019). On the Latin Origins of Spanish mediante. https://doi.org/10.3390/LANGUAGES4010015

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Tahun Terbit: 2019
Bahasa: en
Total Sitasi: 1×
Sumber Database: Semantic Scholar
DOI: 10.3390/LANGUAGES4010015
Akses: Open Access ✓