The Role of Discursive Traditions in Mesoamerican Historical ­Linguistics. An Inquiry on Colonial Nahuatl Wills

• Autor: Mendoza Posadas, Mauro Alberto
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/23090
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/lexis/article/view/23090
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Tradiciones Discursivas; Náhuatl; Estamentos coloniales; Contacto lingüístico; Discursive Traditions; Nahuatl language; Colonial wills; Linguistic contact

Almost all colonial documentation of Mesoamerican languages was written on discursive models of European inspiration. In order to understand the relationship between the American languages and these models (or Discursive Traditions), and also to understand the theoretical implications, we made an analysis centered on the testamentary tradition to investigate the way these documents were translated to the sixteenth Century Nahuatl language. We particularly focused on the syntax-pargamatics interphase, so we could find the differences and similarities between the Discursive Tradition in Castilian and Nahuatl