“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.

The paper aims to analyse the frequency of replacing the verb form «cantara~-se» with «cante» in 18th- century Latin American Spanish based on the data excerpted from the CORDE and CORDIAM corpora. This phenomenon will be examined on the example of subordinate adverbial clauses of purpose with the conjunction “para que”.