THE LANGUAGE OF BOXING. LEXICAL FORMATION PROCESSES

Boxing is a foreign sport introduced in Spain at end of the 19th century, especially following English and French models, from which Sapnish took the lexicon. This article addresses how this language was born, how it entered, how it was adapted, created and expanded in Spanish, in its different levels and with diverse proceedings. For that purpose we will run through the most common ways of neological formation it shows, both its lexical components, where we can find loanwords and adaptations, calques and its own creations, and its morphological components, with derivative and composed words, as well as the morphosyntactic ones: locutions and ellipses, and those of semantic inspiration: metaphors and metonymies.