On the External and Internal Factors of the Penetration of Germanic Loans in the Iberian Peninsula
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https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-0319.25.07Keywords:
Latin, Iberian Peninsula, Spanish, Germanic borrowings, routes of penetration, external and internal factors, structural, lexical and semantic featuresAbstract
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.
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