Shared lexical patterns in the ethnobiological domain of Chaco languages
With more than twenty languages belonging to six linguistic families, the Gran Chaco is a region of great interest for linguists dedicated to the typology and comparison of languages. However, while phonological and grammatical similarities have been the focus of most of these studies, the investiga...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Liames (Online) |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8669038 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/liames/article/view/8669038 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Gran Chaco Lexical semantics Zoonymy Phytonymy Lexical motivation Semántica léxica Zoonimia Fitonimia Motivación léxica Semântica lexical Zoonímia Fitonímia Motivação lexical |
| Sumario: | With more than twenty languages belonging to six linguistic families, the Gran Chaco is a region of great interest for linguists dedicated to the typology and comparison of languages. However, while phonological and grammatical similarities have been the focus of most of these studies, the investigation of semantic patterns has so far played only a minor role. This work takes up the problem of the similarity and possible diffusion of features across the languages of the Chaco through the identification and analysis of shared lexico-semantic patterns in the ethnobiological vocabulary of sixteen languages of the region. Our research has been carried out with the assistance of specific annotation and data processing techniques using the EDICTOR program, which allows, unlike classical methods, to work with a large corpus of digitally available data. The preliminary results of the analysis show a great similarity in the lexical motivation of the analyzed lexemes, mainly through formal patterns such as polysemy, derivation and composition, and semantic relations such as metaphor and metonymy. |
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