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María Kítova-Vasíleva
Investigadora independiente, Sofía
Bulgaria
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8946-4896
Vol 29 (2023), Monográfico: El verbo en las lenguas románicas / Coord.: Susana Azpiazu, Universidad de Salamanca
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/moenia.id8533
Submitted: 15-06-2022 Accepted: 05-09-2023 Published: 18-09-2023
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Abstract

This article seeks to analyze the only non-religious work by the humanist Juan de Valdés, from Cuenca, in order to describe the values and functional behavior of the verb pair habēre > aver (haber) and tenēre > tener that,emwhile not identical in Latin, did have similar meanings. Written during the 1530s and published two hundred years later, this work may not have influenced the development of Castilian Spanish in the early Golden Age as much as the Cervantine novels were able to a century later, but there is no doubt that his Diálogo de la lengua, which is explicitly dedicated to problems of a linguistic nature, helps to inform about the historical evolution of this language in a period in which it was taking its first steps to become what Spanish is today. It is true that the work under study reflects only a short segment in the long series of changes that certain verbal structures underwent, but we consider that, however brief, this historical part of the Spanish verbal system is important as such and provides insight into how it developed