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Marina Serrano-Marín
Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0749-3587
Vol 27 (2021), Articles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/moenia.id8029
Submitted: 19-10-2021 Accepted: 14-02-2022 Published: 04-11-2022
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Abstract

The aim of the present research is to study the chronological, geographical, diastratic and diaphasic distribution of the strong and weak forms of the indicative simple past in Spanish in documentary sources, achieved in corpus CODEA+ 2015 (Corpus de Documentos Españoles Anteriores a 1800), which were issued between the 13th and the 16th centuries. The key question which has given rise to this research lies in whether the verbal morphological strong and weak variables appeared simultaneously all over the Spanish-speaking and bilingual territory of the Peninsula, or if, on the contrary, they showed a different frequency of appearance and a different chronological, geographic and diastratic distribution. Taking into consideration the theoretical concepts of the historical Linguistics, the historical Sociolinguistics, the variational Linguistics and the Pragmatics, we suggest that the adoption of some variables to the detriment of others should have followed two spreading patterns. On the one hand, the geographical parameter has become a decisive factor in those changes in the use of the language from the bottom to the top of the social stratification. On the other hand, the diaphasic parameter would be responsible for the implementation of certain verbal uses as from the higher levels of the language to the lower ones. The adoption of theoretical models of different disciplines is due to the eminently philological perspective demanded by this investigation, in which the whole text has been dealt with.