Analysis of pronominal diversity in sixteenth century letters

Abstract

Through letters from individuals to Indies (16th century), it has analyzed in the pronominal system, linked to other discursive elements (forms of treatment, sentence constructions) and morphosyntactic aspects (evolution of tenses). He has been able to corroborate, according to three criteria (gender, diaphasic, diastratic) analyses the evolution of different pronouns that came to America (your worship, you, you and you) depends both on sociocultural issues and registration, as context (as in the case of you and your worship, appearing on complaints and pleas). In addition, independently to the verbal pronominal system, it has analyzed because do not form a single block. Thus we see a high degree of diphthongization (-áis, -éis), total in the high male classes and high casualties, which testifies the high expansion of diphthongization in the 16th century, always in plain shapes. Forms not diphthongized, his appearance is minimal and reduced to esdrújulas forms, against the flat. It begins to appear signs of overcorrection (vinieredeis; trajeredeis), indicating us that loss of -d- and their stigmatization. As well and all, although they are not pure samples of the oral language of the 16th century, are the written documents that are approaching more lacking hearing samples.