@article{Illamola_Martinell Gifre_2019, title={De apelativos y calificadores en español}, volume={10}, url={https://bells.uib.no/index.php/bells/article/view/1448}, DOI={10.15845/bells.v10i1.1448}, abstractNote={<p>In this article, we will deal with forms whose function within the discourse is basically to qualify (in general, they are essentially attributes) and whose proliferation responds to a need that goes far beyond linguistic issues, since a group of social factors must be taken into consideration. Thus, we will examine pieces that can be defined as qualifying adjectives (<em>cateto/cateta</em>, <em>cenizo/ceniza</em>), as derived nouns (<em>bocazas</em>), as nouns bearing a metaphorical value (<em>cobaya, tesoro</em>), as nominalized adjectives (<em>rubiales. frescales</em>), as well as those that respond to an appealing function (<em>tronco, enano</em>) or others that come from cultural traditions (<em>adán, ídolo, judas</em>).</p> <p>After, we present our starting hypotheses: 1) the ending -<em>a</em>, as a carrier of reference to ’woman’, is diluted in the heterogeneity of considered forms; 2) the role of the article (<em>el/la, un/una</em>) is decisive in the presence of these forms; 3) newly formed forms coexist with old forms; and, above all, 4) in the use of these appreciative forms there does not seem to be awareness of a woman/man reference emanating from the end in -<em>a</em> or -<em>o</em>, or any other.</p> <p>To corroborate them, we have selected around forty voices and examined their use and prevalence in the online versions of CORDE, CREA, CORPES XXI, various editions of <em>Diccionario de la lengua</em> (RAE) and <em>Diccionario inverso de la lengua española</em>.</p> <p>Finally, the analysis leads us to affirm that, in the use of these nominal forms, the endings in -<em>e, -i /-is </em>or -<em>o</em> to apply to a female referent are not rejected, nor, on the contrary: many forms ending in -<em>a</em> do not know a transformation into <em>–o </em>to apply to a male referent. Moreover, the language avoids any possible ambiguity with the application of the article, derivation by suffixes or by an attributive structure.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies}, author={Illamola, Cristina and Martinell Gifre, Emma}, year={2019}, month={Nov.}, pages={14} }