Castellano Ascencio, Milton Daniel2015-03-282015-03-2820132256-3911http://hdl.handle.net/10567/1310This study characterizes, lexically, the nominal treatment formulas used by speakers from Medellin, taking as analysis points the morphological processes that intervene in the formation of the formulas and the practical-semantic values produced in the moment of the appeal. Concerning the methodological aspect, a lexical-graphical methodology has been used, allowing the construction of a corpus in which the formulas are classified according to the lexical formation mechanism that intervenes and to the practical-semantic values that influence the meaning of these lexical units. The article remarks the fact that the displacement of common names out of a nominal function, in order to create an appellate one, involves the appearance of a semantic load that expresses several connotations in which the morphological component also plays an important role.esCorporación Universitaria LasallistaFacultad de Ciencias Sociales y EducaciónLexicologíaSociolingüísticaLenguaje y culturaDialectologíaPragmáticaArticle