El diminutivo en -ijo: pervivencia de un sufijo oficialmente raro en español

Abstract

In the Navarran locality of Sartaguda, in the South west of the province on the banks of the River Ebro, which constitutes the border with La Rioja, the suffix -ijo is still used today as an intentional and productive diminutive, particularly when following a lexical base finishing in -ñ, -ll or -y. This phenomenon is of great philological interest given the marked scarcity of bibliographical testimony of this diminutive in Spanish history. The abundance of place toponyms finishing in -ijo in La Rioja demonstrates that the suffix was widely used in the area at a popular level. The fact that the diminutive -ico is not used in Sartaguda and the -ito suffix has restrictions of use explains, together with specific...