On the Latin Origins of Spanish mediante
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 abla...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-c1ffa8d980a34238a7a98d968861520d2022-12-22T04:00:46ZengMDPI AGLanguages2226-471X2019-02-01411510.3390/languages4010015languages4010015On the Latin Origins of Spanish medianteEsther Artigas0Departament de Filologia Clàssica, Romànica i Semítica, Universitat de Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, SpainThis 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.http://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/4/1/15Latin mediantegrammatical calqueparticiple clauseprepositional valuediscursive tradition |
| spellingShingle | Esther Artigas On the Latin Origins of Spanish mediante Languages Latin mediante grammatical calque participle clause prepositional value discursive tradition |
| title | On the Latin Origins of Spanish mediante |
| title_full | On the Latin Origins of Spanish mediante |
| title_fullStr | On the Latin Origins of Spanish mediante |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the Latin Origins of Spanish mediante |
| title_short | On the Latin Origins of Spanish mediante |
| title_sort | on the latin origins of spanish mediante |
| topic | Latin mediante grammatical calque participle clause prepositional value discursive tradition |
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