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This paper is part of a more general research. Its main goal is describing the present state of the language and the changes suffered by 5 forms in Chilean Spanish. They are: dostor, úrtimo, güena, juerte y humirde. The description of these cases is relevant for the study of the etymological doublets formation because there are important similarities among these examples and some historical doublets. Cifuentes (2015a, 2015b), on the one hand, focuses on the awareness of distinctive value of consonantic phonemes in neutralization position in Chilean Spanish and the place of this phenomenon in lexical innovation. On the other hand, it focuses on the results of a survey applied to 200 Spanish speakers on protodoublet meanings. In this particular article, we focus on two other aspects that are evidences of lexical bifurcation in those cases. They are: the morphosyntactic distribution and the reaction of a focus group in relation to the mentioned doublets forms. We concluded that, in general, the protrodoublet forms have a different morphosyntactic distribution and also that the speakers make consistent semantic differences among them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An analysis of the non-deictic second person singular uses in Chilean Spanish is presented in this paper. The dataset is made of semi-spontaneous speech, specifically, sociolinguistic inter-views, from which an exploratory corpus was extracted. In this context, the main goal of the research is to analyse the non-deictic 2nd person singular uses according to stylistic aspects through a new proposal of discourse-pragmatic categories which are related with linguistic and extralinguistic variables. Specifically, four categories are distinguished: a) generalization, b) focused generalization, c) inclusive defocalization and d) self-disguising. This classification is then correlated with the factors of forms of address and sex. Results regarding the sociolinguistic and morphosyntactic variables demonstrate that men present higher frequencies of use of the non-deictic strategies, specifically with voseo verb forms, while women tend to employ this device with tuteo. As for the categories, non-deictic usage is especially high through generalization and focused generalization, as strategies associated with a potential effect of empathy towards the interlocutor, especially in those cases where voseo is employed. In this sense, each of the categories proposed represents a specific discourse-pragmatic strategy at a stylistic variation level, which is regarded not only by the degree of formality, but also as a linguistic choice within the speakers' repertoire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a metalexicographical analysis of the dictionary voces usadas en Chile, by Aníbal Echeverría y Reyes published in Chile in 1900. it reviews the state of lexicography practiced in late 19th Century Chile. The analysis follows Matus' metalexicographical analysis chart (1995), which allows description, analysis and critical evaluation of lexicographical works on Chilean spanish. This work aims at revealing (revealing) the advanced scientific techniques used by Echeverría y Reyes in processing and systematizing dictionary entries. it also shows the strategies used by the author to detach himself from the more purist and conservative ideas that were commonplace in his day. This becomes evident in the increase of idiomatic reference points, which induce a polycentric standardization, as stated by de granda (1994), and in the way the frontiers between official and marginal lexicon become diffuse, allowing for the inclusion of taboo terms in the dictionary. finally, the study stresses the importance of Aníbal Echeverría y Reyes' lexicographical work as a transitional period in the field's pre-scientific and scientific stages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]