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POSTIGO DE DE BEDIA, Ana María  y  CALVELO, Patricia A.. Study of abbreviations in Spanish. Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2001, n.16, pp.69-85. ISSN 1668-8104.

In this work we have studied the evolution of the use of abreviatures in five women's testaments produced in Jujuy in the XVII and XVIII centuries. The frequency of using abbreviations registered in our corpus of analysis and the sparing bibliography existing about the theme, induced us to this study, with the basic objective of observing the evolution of the forms through the comparison between the testaments and the present use. Methodologically, we have followed Millares Carlo's classifying system for the palaeographic study of texts from the Middle Age and Renaissance. The comparison of the forms, in attention to the proceedings utilised in the formation of abbreviations, allows us its classification into: a) evolution; b) involution; c) fallen into disuse; d) conserved; e) vacillating. Our conclusions permit to suppose that the few abbreviating rules existing in the written language in the XVIIth century could have been transferred by oral tradition and that, in the next century, though the Real Academia Española had regulated its use, the proceedings of abbreviation were delivered, in a greatest number, to the writer's culture.

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