Neologisms in the Qom Language: an Approach to Semantic and Formal Aspects
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.30972/clt.0216891Keywords:
Qom language, Neologisms, Linguistics typology, Word formationAbstract
The paper explores the different strategies for the creation of neologism in the Qom language. Based on corpus collected from secondary sources (web pages, dictionaries, manuals) and elicitation with a native speaker, the different morphosyntactic and semantic aspects involved in the creation of new words were analyzed from a typological perspective (Díaz Hormigo, 2020; Haspelmath y Tadmor, 2009), taking into account some contributions of cognitive linguistics (Fernández Jaen, 2014; Romero Gualda, 2008) and focusing on the metaphor and metonymy as mechanisms to form neologisms. Previous studies about word formation in Qom were considered (Messineo, 2003; Censabella, 2005; Cúneo, 2013). This article is a contribution from the description of an indigenous language to the studies about neology.