La neología en la gramática y el diccionario del siglo XIX

Abstract

Grammarian Vicente Salvá’s (1786-1849) lexicographical contributions provided a new theoretical approach to the 19th century Spanish grammar. A simultaneous dedication to these two disciplines allows us to give some examples of relations between the lexical studies and the grammar ones. Relations that Salvá and Bello’s generation (1781-1865) had already managed to establish. These authors not only contribute to lexical expansion in Spanish –against other more preservative positions–, but also describe and regulate grammar behaviors of new lexical series, like the plural form of recent borrowings or the feminine form of new constructions. The lexicographical treatment of deverbal nouns finishing in -tor , -dor , (director , conspirador ) still today reveals the problems of a 19th century marking system which in practice doesn’t take into account the noun classification as noun and adjective.