Sobre morfología argótica del español peninsular

Abstract

In this article we examine part of the marginal morphology of the lexicon that appears in El nuevo tocho cheli, by Ramoncín (1996). We conclude that new formation rules can involve a violation of former general rules in the Spanish language in its European dialects. This conclusion might be applied to several morphemes related to concordance in genre and number and to other morphological processes. Some of them have been accepted in the colloquial register of Spanish young people from the middle classes during the second half of the 20th century. Their origins can be Romance or gypsy. Their procedures can be hybrid or conventional, but they derive in the creation of male orthonyms. Speakers might not even be completely aware of these processes, but there is no doubt that they can become functional and productive devices in their current grammar. These are processes created in a limited oral space and inside a marginal community. Thus, we defend that the neuropsychology of pattern creativity (Luria 1976, Goldberg 2019 [2018]) might be able to find the morphological regularities opposed to the social rules of a language that are firmly anchored in the speaker’s community mind. Acceptation and normal use of such lexical series pertains to left hemisphere skills because of its tireless search for regularities in order to construct perceptive patterns even when they involve a violation of the preexisting ones