The Indigenous Contribution to the Lexicon of Nineteenth-Century Honduras According to A. Membreño’s Hondureñismos
Despite of his relevance in Central American lexicography, Alberto Membreño has not received the attention he deserves. Because of that, this paper aims to analyze the collection of Indigenous words in his Hondureñismos (1897), in order to study their importance in this dictionary. Thus, various asp...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | Costa Rica |
| Recursos: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/63073 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/kanina/article/view/63073 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | history of Latin American Spanish lexicography 19th century Honduras indigenous lexicon historia del español de América lexicografía siglo XIX indigenismo histoire de l'espagnol en Amérique lexicographie 19e siècle indigénisme |
| Resumo: | Despite of his relevance in Central American lexicography, Alberto Membreño has not received the attention he deserves. Because of that, this paper aims to analyze the collection of Indigenous words in his Hondureñismos (1897), in order to study their importance in this dictionary. Thus, various aspects (such as the number of words that come from Indigenous languages, their etymology, their distribution in lexical fields and their interpretation as americanismo will be examined, so we will be able to understand in a deeper way the contribution of autochthonous languages to Central America’s 19th century lexicography. |
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