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El presente estudio se basa en la interpretación de los mapas 1 (bien), 2 (prisa), 4 (mirlo), 5 (hoja), 6 (viejo), 11 (culebra) y 15 (silla) del "Atlas Lingüístico de Castilla y León", para analizar, a través de ellos, el comportamiento de las vocales tónicas abiertas (procedentes de e˘ y o˘ latinas) en las áreas delimitadas por el "Atlas". Con este análisis se intenta observar cuáles son las zonas que con mayor vitalidad guardan en sus hablas los vestigios del llamado dialecto asturleonés y se reflexiona sobre la conveniencia de elaborar mapas lingüísticos en regiones que, aunque unidas por circunstancias políticas, poco tienen en común desde el punto de vista idiomático. ; This paper is based on the interpretation of maps 1 (bien), 2 (prisa), 4 (mirlo), 5 (hoja), 6 (viejo), 11 (culebra), and 15 (silla) in the "Linguistic Atlas of Castile and León" in order to analyse the behaviour of tonic open vowels (coming from Latin e˘ and o˘). The aim is to examine which geographical locations still keep strong vestiges of the old Astur-leonés dialect. We also reflect on the fact of uniting areas that, albeit politically apart, maintain linguistic similarities. ; peerReviewed

Suffixation and Grammatical Gender. The presence in the Spanish language of words like la silla (chair) and el sillón (armchair), el lago (lake) and la laguna (lagoon), la casa (house) and el caserón (mansion) or la corbata (tie) and el corbatín (bow tie), leads us to wonder if the grammatical gender change in these pairs of non-sexed nouns is justified due to a variation in the size of the object – a type traditionally studied as a dimensional genre – or if it is imposed by the suffix that is added to the root in one of the forms, irrespective of whether or not it is a modification based on the dimensions of the object. Under this approach, we will try to address a topic which pivots on flexive morphology and derivational morphology and to which the etymology of each of the analysed forms will have a great deal to contribute in order to draw conclusive results. Keywords: grammatical gender, suffix, derivational morphology, flexive morphology