Los infijos en español

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine the phenomenon of infixation in the Spanish language. This study has been divided into five parts, with the exception of the introduction. The first one presents ways of classifying various affixes according to their position within words. In the next two parts, two different types of infixation in Spanish are presented. The first of them concerns diminutive forms and has an expressive function in them. The second one appears in vesreisms (Sp. vesreísmos ), where it indicates the grammatical gender of nouns and adjectives. The first infixes occur in all varieties of the Spanish language, while the latter are dialectal. In the fourth part, an attempt is made to propose further arguments in favor of recognizing the existence of infixed forms in Spanish. In the last part of the article, some conclusions are drawn on the basis of the examples and observations presented in the previous parts of the study.