An old lexical controversy: <papa> versus <patata>
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Enrique Ballón Aguirre
Institut Ferdinand de Saussure Comité Scientifique
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9809-1734
Abstract
A panchronic review of the lexical tradition of the words <papa> and <patata> shows that the first is widely used by Spanish speaking people in America, and by part of the peninsula. Through philological analysis one sees that <patata> gets subordinated to <papa>. However, the 2001 edition of the DRAE persists in inverting the good lexical order. The Andean product is defined under the term <patata> whereas <papa> is left without a definition and subordinates to <patata>. In this article the harmful consequences of such a careless decision are proved, an urgent rectification in the edition of the DRAE is claimed, and the basic defining features of <papa> are given to be included in the new Diccionario de Americanismos.Downloads
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