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In this paper we propose to locate the trace of Raimundo Sanz's Diccionario militar (1749)- the first example in Spanish language of this special lexicographical variety-in the Diccionario militar portátil (1822) of José Fernández Mancheño, composed in the next century, in order to find out how much of its terminology meets inheritances rather than own innovations. Our objective is also to verify the mutual semantic influences, in addition to those concerning lexicographical marks, which are used to restrict the words. Thanks to our contrastive analysis, several conclusions can be drawed. The most important are, first, that innovation in Fernandez Mancheño with respect to its direct predecessor, curiously, is to have recourse to military terminology of the past and, second, that the marks and the definitions are the microstructural elements where the progress reached by Fernández Mancheño compared to Sanz is more obvious. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Variation in the field of phraseology has been the object of numerous studies of the common language. Since the last decade of the 20th century several investigations stressed the relevance of the phraseological variation in texts for special purposes in many fields, as for instance for specialized translation. In this paper the phraseological variation in legal texts is treated from a topolectal point of view in a corpus consisting of sentences from Hispanic penal law. Firstly, the corpus is analyzed using the model introduced by Tabares Plasencia (2012). Secondly, a sample of variation in the analyzed texts is proposed in order to systematize this variation and to develop a database of PLU (Phraseological Legal Units) for this type of texts, applicable to other text types in the future, which is addressed to Spanish-German translators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]