ORIGEN DE LAS ESTRATEGIAS DISTRIBUTIVAS POR REDUPLICACIÓN EN ESPAÑOL Y PORTUGUÉS ANTIGUOS

Abstract

Our knowledge about the unusual history of the syntactic construction Reduplicación Numeral Distributiva (RND) in Medieval Latin, Old Spanish and Old Portuguese is very limited. A prefab example of RND is *E ovo […] en cada pared de amos los costados treinta varas de V V cobdos…; i.e., ‘[…] varas de V codos cada una’. Reduplicative numbers disambiguates collective and distributive semantic interpretations. This construction is documented throughout four centuries (10th C-13th C.) in western Spain and Portugal. Defining the nature of this structure and documenting its evolution are two major goals in this research.