El pronombre informal usted en la historia del español García Godoy, María Teresa History of Spanish Allocutive forms of address Pronominal systems The Spanish language has usually codified the second person singular with binary pronominals, where usted is always the formal element (form of address V). Yet in contemporary Central America, an informal pronoum usted is in use (form of addess T). This Central American phenomenon (called ustedeo) represents a substantial distancing from the binary prototype, given that a single pronoun functions as the formal form of address (usted-V) as well as the informal (usted-T). This paper analyses two types of allocutive form of address codification in the Hispanic world: one whith a strictly grammatical base (two pronouns system) and the other of a more pragmatic nature (single pronoun system). In order to determine the origin of this latter system, this study will look at the dating of the ustedeo phenomenon, as a significant divergence from the binary pronominal prototype. 2024-04-08T07:27:48Z 2024-04-08T07:27:48Z 2022 journal article Silvia Iglesias Recuero (coordinadora) Pragmática histórica del español. Formas de tratamiento, actos de habla y construcción del diálogo, Sevilla: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2022, páginas 85-106. 978-84-472-2251-3 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/90459 spa Colección Lingüística;76 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Editorial Universidad de Sevilla