Abstract

MORANDO, María Agustina. The mechanisms of lexical innovation and the reconfiguration of indigenous modernity in Chacoan Guarani. Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2021, vol.14, n.1, pp.173-184. ISSN 1852-060X.  http://dx.doi.org/http://doi.org/10.31048/1852.4826.v14.n1.30893.

Abstract The aim of this paper is to document the mechanisms of lexical innovation in Chacoan Guarani or Chiriguano language, which resulted in the emergence of a large number of new words. The focus is particularly on three ways in which the processes of lexical innovation can occur: the creation of new words, the incorporation of borrowings, and the operations of semantic extension whereby words already existing in the language acquire new meanings. In order to identify new lexical elements, published materials such as dictionaries, glossaries and documents of different types as well as oral discourse documented during my ethnographic research are studied. This involves approaching the dynamics of lexical innovation processes from an anthropological perspective, recovering the ethnohistorical aspects influencing them at different times and observing the ways in which they contribute to signifying and constructing indigenous modernity.

Keywords : Lexical innovation; Chacoan Guarani; Indigenous languages; Chaco; Modernity.

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