Derivational network for the word godín in Mexican spanish

Abstract

In this research we will analyze the origin of the word godín, its morphological structure, its semantic extension, and the derivational network to which it has given rise. This word is used to refer to a type of worker who is also known as a bureaucrat. They are office workers who come to their place of work at fixed hours; they usually bring food from home and establish camaraderie with their desk colleagues. The interesting thing about this word is that it has given rise to other derived words that extend the concept and create a neological derivational network. Among the words that we can mention are: godinato, godinazo, godinear, godinesco, godinista, among others. A derivational network allows to extend a concept, let's say nominal, to create verbs, adjectives, and adverbs with similar semantic features but different grammatical behavior. Likewise, these new concepts can in turn create new words in a second order of derivation: for example, the noun godín gives rise to the verb godinear, in a first order; in turn, godinear can be derived, in a second order of derivation in a new noun, godineo. In this paper we will demonstrate that this new derivational network is similar to others that make up established words (Díaz-Negrillo, 2021), which suggests that the lexical framework is organized in a logical and cyclical way. This allows us to affirm that the path followed by a new concept in its lexical development can be predicted to some extent.