doublets, bifrasismos, difrasismos

[jrabasa at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU]

John: If I remember correctly the term difrasismo was first used by
Angel Maria Garibay, K.  I don't knwo exactly where but my guess
would be as early as Llave del nahuatl (1940) or in his Historia de
la literatura nahuatl (1949). Jose

>Listeros,
>        Who can I cite as the first person to use the term,
>"bifrasismo", or "difrasismo" to refer to the doublet phrases used
>so commonly in nahuatl? I've used these two terms for at least 13
>years now in my teaching, and I don`t remember if I made them up
>myself from the word "doublet" or if I read them somewhere.
>
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