O galego de Filgueira Valverde

Abstract

After some considerations about the three Galician “crowns” from Rexurdimento –the Galician popularizing in the literary work of Rosalia and Curros, but not in the Pondal– I will study “enxebrista” or differential Galician of Filgueira Valverde from his work before the war of 1936, starting with the analysis of the language in the narrations Os nenos (1925) and O Vigairo (1927) and the play Agromar (1936). In the nominal and verbal morphology of these works, Filgueira employs Galician forms from his native Pontevedra, along with differential solutions with literary tradition in other areas. In the lexicon is general the “hipergaleguización”, characteristic of the authors of the first third of the twentieth century, while it enriches his prose with some loans from modern languages, especially with archaisms, like for instance the word “ronsel” of Lopez Ferreiro. In O Vigairothere are many popular maritime words, some are very used actually, others are already literary because they designate the disappeared crafts. Some of them already introduced in the literary Galician by Xoán M. Pintos from Pontevedra or by Ramon Cabanillas from Cambados, but others are documented for the first time in the history of Galician writing in this work of Filgueira.