The lexical creation by means of initials: a resource of expressive condensation in the digital press

Abstract

The initials in the Spanish language would seem to have minor vitality if it is compared with the languages of other countries. Nevertheless, they have received a considerable protagonism in the last decades, in such a way that some lexicographers have considered Spain to be the country "abreviaturóforo" owed specially, to the development of this lexical subsystem for the proliferation of political organizations that arise from the year 1975. It can be said that an abbreviation is better integrated so much as element of the lexicon, more erased his original motivation is. In the aspect morphology-syntactic, the reference to organizations and institutions of varied order determines the substantive character of the initials, the majority of which constitute own names. The enormous flow of voices siglated and such a frequent use of these both in the traditional press and in the foxglove, they exercise an estimable pressure in the linguistic system. The majority of the initials in Spanish adjust to the phonological system, but also they are numerous those who are separated of him when adopt some of his members and consonants a distribution foreign to the linguistic system. The nominal character can be given in initials that have not produced derivatives the same as it happens with to traditional words.