Approach to the History of the Neological Phenomenon in Spanish

Abstract

This study aims to contribute to Spanish lexicography and, more specifically, to neologism by means of a bibliographical review that compiles, analyzes and interprets the numerous positions that have been following one another over the centuries on newly created dictions. The diachronic route traced thus delves into what neologism was like during the Renaissance, the Baroque and the Enlightenment and, more recently, in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, from which it can be concluded that, regardless of the boom it has experienced in recent decades, the phenomenon of neology is by no means recent in the Hispanic sphere, because it goes back to the origins of the Spanish language. Since then, there has been no shortage of opinions and arguments both to approve and reject the use of newly created voices in Spanish, a fact that with the founding of the Royal Spanish Academy led to the diatribe of including or rejecting a neologism in a philological instrument of reference such as the aforementioned institution's Dictionary.