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Salamanca, España
The aim of this article is to determine whether adjectives contributed to the construction of scientific-technical texts in the sixteenth century. An examination is made of the formation, typology and use of adjectives documented in the corpus of texts pertaining to the Diccionario de la Ciencia y de la Técnica del Renacimiento (http://dicter.usal.es/), but only of those that appear in a single text. This procedure was chosen based on the idea that more than one documentation would indicate that the word in question was now established as part of the language, and that in contrast, only one occurrence would be the result of the neological work of an author who, motivated by a communicative or expressive need, created a term based on the general language in search of the appropriateness and precision that are demanded of these types of texts, which are furthermore destined to the dissemination and divulgation of scientific knowledge.
