Thoughts On The Re-Latinization Of The Spanish Lexicon

This article offers thoughts on the general theme raised in Ray Harris-Northall's "Re-Latinization of Castilian Lexis in the Early Sixteenth Century" (1999), in which Harris-Northall illustrated the replacement of vernacular lexical items in the Gran conquista de ultramar manuscripts by Latinisms in the 1503 edition. The author took a highly original position by analyzing the introduction of Latinisms into the early-modern text tradition of a medieval work as a purposeful step in the creation of a standardized literary language. Adapted from the source document