Old Spanish recudir and the verb acudir. An example of cognitive diachronic semantics
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The article deals with the medieval Spanish verb recudir and its modern follower acudir. The method used is the one that derives from cognitive diachronic semantics. The verb recudir was a deictic verb indicating a movement with implied direction, movement backwards with a prospective dimension behind. From the thirteenth century a second prototype appears with a change in deictic signaling and a change in prospective direction involved: the direction of movement is the opposite, forward with a prospective dimension ahead. Also in the thirteenth century a new lexeme appears, acudir, which continues the second prototype and which ends up replacing recudir. The new lexeme suffixes the preposition a-, which responds to the change in deictic signaling and the change in the prospective direction implied by the second prototype.
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