Sobre la decadencia del participio en –udo en castellano: los datos de la Vizcaya bajomedieval

Abstract

José Luis RAMÍREZ LUENGO: On the Decadence of the Participle in –udo in Castillian Spanish: the data from late medieval Vizcaya. The work at hand studies the use of the –udo participle in the Castillian Spanish used in late medieval Vizcaya in order to analyze its process of decadence and substitution, as well as any possible peculiarities in this concrete diatopic variety. In light of the data registered, one can say that these forms already show a highly routine use in Vizcaya in the 14th and 15th centuries. This is confirmed with its almost exclusive use in the expression ser tenudo de/a, and also more particularly, in the work of texts by certain more conservative scribes, that unlike other contemporaries did not use the more modern form with –i.