Apócope extrema e influencia castellanizante en la prosa gallega del siglo XIV

Resum

In this paper, we study the residual extreme apocope in medieval Galician texts in the context of the development of unstressed vowels in word-final position in this language. Following the line of thought initiated by García de Diego in 1909, later developed in works published in the 1980's, it has consistently been said that the so called extreme apocope was a rare phenomenon in Medieval Galician, with the exception of the type that supposedly appeared in certain texts, most of them translations of prose works of the 14th century. Through the exhaustive scrutiny that these cases have been subjected to in our work, we wish to show that this reservation is not justified and that it can be stated beyond any doubt that Medieval Galician was almost completely unaffected by this linguistic innovation.