Edgar: doublets, bifrasismos, difrasismos

[Fuentes, Gloria]

Can someone tell me what those words mean? 

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Subject: Edgar: doublets, bifrasismos, difrasismos

Yes, Ok, Angel Maria Garibay used the word difrasismo in Llave del nahuatl, you can find this word in the index INDICE ANALITICO DE LA NOTICIA GRAMATICAL, section ESTILISTICA, pp 18 and 150.


--- jrabasa at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU wrote:

> 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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