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This article analyzes and systematizes the reflections on language that the Peruvian writer Gamaliel Churata proposes in his work Khirkhilas de la sirena. According to the linguistic project already advanced in his El Pez de Oro, Churata claims the literary and poetic use of an Andean Spanish strongly quechuized and aymarized. This paper will show how Churata's poetics of the language is concretized in the poems, analyzing certain choices and lexical-semantic aspects that characterize the work and that account for the relevant contact between Quechua, Aymara and Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the conclusions of a dialectological research developed in a coastal area in the south of Chile (Biobío and Araucania Regions). The analysis of the material shows remarkable traditional lexical stability derived from Hispanic roots related to navigation and small fishing vessels. More changes and geographical variations are observed with respect to the fishing terminology as a result of the changes in that referential domain during the last decades. Some indigenous terms from Mapudungun, language that has lost much vitality in this area of the country, are also recognized in this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the uses of the word chino, china in northern Peru in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, via historical documents and popular poetry couplets. Contrary to previous proposals, we corroborate the actual use of this term, especially in its feminine form, and we propose two possible meanings for it: the first, linked to caste terminology, refers to a type of ?racial mix? between ?Indian? and ?African?, with a minor and variable component of ?white blood?, while the second refers to a young woman, usually a peasant. We also examine the use of the word as a formulaic way to appeal to the loved one in popular poetry and we conclude that, although probably this formula was derived from the racial terminology, the word quickly gained positive affective nuances, making it possible to refer to the woman that it was possible to court. It is suggested that the former meaning 'servant', central in colonial sources of sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, began to blur in the studied period and in line with previous works. We propose a competition between the word and its homophone, referred to Asian migrants since the late nineteenth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is divided into two parts. The first part studies the main phonetic, morphological and lexical features on the vernacular Lesbian dialect, as well as its origin itself. Also, this first part associates the Lesbian dialect to the Attic one. The second part is centered on the characterization of the dialects used by Sappho and Alcaeus, paying special attention to phonetic, morphological and lexical features. Additionally, it includes a list of the hapax legomena which occurs in the fragments of Lesbian poets and draws some examples of the different uses of the dialect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]