@ARTICLE{Hummel_Martin_Diachronic_2025, author={Hummel, Martin}, volume={vol. 72}, number={No 1}, pages={122-142}, journal={Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny}, howpublished={online}, year={2025}, publisher={Wydział I Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych PAN i Uniwersytet Warszawski}, abstract={a Latinism at the end of the 15th century. Lacking a motivated lexical basis, it gave rise to vulgarisations such as de imprevisto, and continues to stimulate them, as, e.g., a lo improvisado, found in present-day Mexican Spanish. The variants found in this variety serve as a starting point to verify its current use in the reference corpora and then to trace it back in diachrony and in Latin. It is shown that in American Spanish, traditions of usage converge with productive polygenetic (re)creation.}, type={Article}, title={Diachronic vulgarization: sp. De improviso and its variants}, URL={http://ochroma.man.poznan.pl/Content/135294/2025-01-KNEO-08.pdf}, doi={10.24425/kn.2025.154229}, keywords={Spanish, adverbs, variation, vulgarization, polygenesis}, }