La sufixació en la premsa valenciana del segle XIX

Abstract

El Mole, one of the first newspapers in Catalan language, used a popular and modern language based on contemporary popular literature that the authors blended with a more formal register according to each one of the articles. The editors made use of a contemporary language linked with the reality they were living and at the same time developed a creative use of the language by using word formation mechanisms, like suffixation. In this paper we study the suffixes of El Mole, and we see how they express the 19th century Catalan linguistic reality in its Valencian variety and the linguistic creativity of the editors. Furthermore, we focus on the words of major interest formed by suffixation. We compare also the linguistic forms of this newspaper with other contemporary Catalan texts.