Estructuras comparativas intensivas en la Edad Media: el adjetivo checo ‘černý’ y el nórdico antiguo ‘svartr’ en comparación con el adjetivo español ‘negro’

• Authors: Blanco Xavier , García Pérez Rafael , Gutiérrez Rubio Enrique

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Intensive Comparative Structures in the Middle Ages: Czech Adjective černý and Old Norse svartr compared to Spanish Adjective negro

• Languages of publication: ES

Abstracts

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In this article, we study the intensive comparative structures applied to the adjective negro (‘black’) in medieval Spanish, in comparison with the homologous structures in medieval Czech (adjective černý) and Old Norse (adjective svartr). We present and comment numerous examples that contain different second terms of the comparison, from the most frequent (pez ‘pitch’, carbón ‘coal’, cuervo ‘crow’…) to the rarest (olla ‘pot’, diablo ‘devil’…). Numerous convergences are observed, largely due to the existence of deep common cultural bases, such as Christianity and the literary tradition of classical antiquity, but also numerous divergences and even singularities of each of the languages considered.

Keywords

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collocation; intensity Old Czech; Old Spanish; Old Norse

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Linguistica Pragensia
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 32
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 235-253

Contributors

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Blanco Xavier

• Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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García Pérez Rafael

• Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

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Gutiérrez Rubio Enrique

• Universidad Palacký de Olomouc