Análisis de cambios semánticos de tipo histórico en las locuciones de la variedad lingüística chilena

Abstract

The following article presents an analysis of diachronic semantics of a set of forty common idioms of the Chilean linguistic variety. These, in turn, are representatives of four grammatical categories with lexical meaning: nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs. The idioms were randomly extracted from the Diccionario de uso del español de Chile: (DUECh) (Academia Chilena de la Lengua, 2010). As a theoretical principle for the analysis, the categories of semantic changes suggested by Stephen Ullmann (1962) and Ralph Penny (1993) were adapted, which attends to the causes, types and consequences of the historical type change. This way, a study is carried out with a qualitative approach, by describing the previously mentioned topics, in addition to a quantitative one which has the purpose to analyze the frequency of these innovations in Chilean Spanish.