Una nota sobre la variación morfológica: las nominalizaciones en -dera en español

Abstract

In this article we study a word formation process that involves the suffix -dera in some variaties of American Spanish, where it can give rise to event nouns with a meaning of intensity. After presenting its precise dialectal distribution and its semantic role, we contend that this process is related with the highly productive participial nominalizations in American Spanish, and, thus, that this case of morphological variation needs to be reduced to a more basic phenomenon.

Keywords

• variation
• nominalization
• event nouns
• the suffix –dera