“How come you’re not shipping them??? They’re canon”: a look at the language of Italian fandom – The aim of this article is to examine a relatively recent phenomenon in the language of fandom, i.e. various communities of fans that form around a cultural event or artifact, such as a book, a TV show, a movie, etc. This research is located within fan studies, however, it mainly investigates the linguistic aspects of being a fan in Italian. The distinctive feature of the language of fandom as a specific variety, associated with a particular topic and activity and mediated by Internet communication tools, is a specialist lexicon, understandable only to community members. The article concentrates on loanwords from English which in the case of Italian primarily comprise the vocabulary of fandom.

El presente artículo gira en torno a la frecuencia de sustitución de «cantara~-se» por «cante» en el español de América en el siglo XVIII a base de los datos extraídos de los corpus CORDE y CORDIAM. Se analiza el fenómeno en cuestión en las oraciones finales con el nexo “para que”.