A short note on the suffix -"érrimo"

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Published: 25-04-2023

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Franz Rainer
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Austria
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7258-535X
Vol 50 (2023), Notes, pages 1-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/verba.50.8477
Submitted: 19-05-2022 Accepted: 19-07-2022 Published: 25-04-2023
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In the present short note it is shown that the superlatives in -érrimo are the result of a process of suffix substitution. This hypothesis is necessary to account for different aspects of the allomorphy and semantics of these derivatives.

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Spanish, suffixation, suffix -érrimo, paradigmatic morphology
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