The Catalan lexicon in the XIX century: the hispanisms in the Labèrnia dictionary

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to make the inventory and analysis of the hispanisms incorporated in the dictionary of Pere Labernia which were later excluded of the standard Catalan codified by Pompeu Fabra. Considering that the Labernia dictionary is the most important of those made before the referred codification and that it was the dictionary of reference for the educated Catalan society of the XIX century, the analysis of these hispanisms allows us to understand the conception about the Catalan lexicon in that society and the revolutionary change that the codifying action of Pompeu Fabra represents.