Abstract: Considerations on Nominal Binomials in Documents of the Audience of Quito in the 16th and 17th Centuries. The phenomenon of binomials is very widespread in Spanish and is witnessed from its first texts. In the present work, the nominal binomial structures are analyzed in a corpus of documents of the Audiencia of Quito from the 16th and 17th centuries, since, in the history of the Spanish language, we are far from knowing the dynamics of the binomials in the American viceregal documentation. We will present some of the representative characteristics of the bimembre technique as a fact of writing the American documentation, insisting on its variational dimension.

Keywords: binomials, Audience of Quito, historical American Spanish, the 16th