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Normally, European languages are considered to express evidentiality only by lexical means, while numerous non-Indo-European languages present specific grammatical items which function as evidential markers. In recent years, numerous studies have pointed out the existence of evidential markers in various Indo-European languages, included Spanish. This article intends to be another contribution to the study of evidentiality in Spanish. My claim is that generalizations expressed with the particle se, on the one hand, and generalizing constructions with uno, 2nd person singular and 3rd person plural, on the other hand, contrast with each other in terms of evidentiality. While the latter constructions express a generalization based on the speaker’s personal experience, the se-construction refers to established rules or hearsay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article studies the lexical formations in -ivo found in the 15th-century Castilian version of Bartholomaeus Anglicus' De proprietatibus rerum, translated by Vicente de Burgos. The article includes a side-by-side analysis of the occurrence and frequency of forms such as 'agregativo' or 'odorativo' and 'creativo' or 'nutritivo' in other texts and dictionaries (ADMYTE and CORDE corpora) and in the Latin version of the text that already register this lexical formations. The articles re-examines the concept of 'Latinism' and 'Neolatinism' applied to these forms, and, based on the translation, posits that they are preserved due to the Latinizing attitude of the author, seen in the lexicon, syntax, and textual construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]