The Syntactic Information in the 'Diccionario Crítico Etimológico Castellano e Hispánico' by J. Corominas and J.A. Pascual as Expressed in the Database 'Syntax.Dbf'

This paper focuses on the structure of a syntactic relational database which includes all the syntactic information contained in the Diccionario Critico Etimológico Castellano e Hispánico, by J . Corominas and J. A. Pascual. Owing to the fact that the dictionary was written in a way which escapes uniformity, it has been necessary to establish a series of fields in order to compile and accommodate the different kinds of knowledge related to the syntactic history of the lexical items. These fields are organized in five groups according to the subject of study: information related to the lemmata; grammatical aspects; syntactic information; other related knowledge; and relevant observations and comments provided by the researchers. Besides reproducing the data given in the dictionary, this type of database comprises severa1 interpretative fields. Therefore, Syntax. dbf constitutes a basic tool for any researcher working on Spanish diachronic syntax.