From the Historia General de las cosas de Nueva España, by fray Bernardino de Sahagún, we analyze a representative sample ofthe process of lexical adjustment to American Spanish, in order to discover, on the one hand, the incorporation of some from these voices to the speech of the colonial Mexico, on the other hand, with the intention of providing news on the most relevant aspects that are observed in this nomination, and of showing, in case of our friar, his thin capacity of perception of the American reality, according to his scientific work, and with his degree of acclimatization to the new lands.
Keywords:
Spanish of America, colonial lexicon, lexical varieties
Bastardín Candón, T. (2013). The Adjustment of the patrimonial vocabulary in the Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España. Boletín De Filología, 48(1), Pág. 33 – 52. Retrieved from https://anuariocdh.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/27132
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