Vocabulario de refranes y frases proverbiales

Abstract

Despite the ups and downs gone through by its original manuscript before Louis Combert’s published it during the sixties of the last century, Gonzalo Correa`s Vocabulary of Sayings and Proverbial Phrases constitutes a real monument in the fi eld of Hispanic philology by its linguistic documentary wealth. Written in the author’s phonetic spelling at a time when the changes in the consonantal subsystem had practically reached completion, this valuable document allows the researcher to carry out a rigorous study of one of the most peculiar features of the Spanish language, i.e. that concerning the daily life metaphors as they are refl ected in sayings and proverbial phrases, a wealth of thought and customs amassed in these expressions since the beginnings of the language to the present, which if not present in the current speech it is at least well enough documented in the Spanish literary production of the last centuries .

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