El adverbio obviamente: evolución diacrónica y expansión geográfica de un anglicismo de frecuencia

COCCO, SIMONA MARIA

2014-01-01

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Abstract

Frequency Anglicisms are a type of syntactic variation that occurs when the use of a syntactic structure increases as a result of the influence of the English language on another. In Spanish the increasing use of passive forms instead of active ones, changes in the position of adjectives and the use of adverbs in -mente instead of adverbial locutions, are generally con- sidered as frequency Anglicisms. An increase in the use of the Spanish ad- verb obviamente, due to the influence of the English obviously, has been recognized by authors such as Vázquez Ayora (1977) and Pratt (1980) and confirmed by small corpus based studies on Anglicisms in specialized texts (Gómez Capuz 2001; Rodríguez Medina 2002). In this paper the use of obviamente will be analysed in the most important reference corpora of Spanish Language (CORDE, CREA, CORPES), paying special attention to diachronic, diatopic and text type variations.