Abstract

NAVARRO HARTMANN, HERMINIA. Ethnobiological lexicon in the mapuche language. Cuad. linguist. hisp. [online]. 2014, n.23, pp.13-28. ISSN 0121-053X.

This work is part of a larger research project that is part of the PICT project of the National University of La Pampa. This study analyzes the descriptive and typological linguistics of the indigenous languages of Argentina, with special emphasis on the Patagonian region. Linked to the group of linguists from La Plata is the life and work of Bertha Koessler-Ilg, a German researcher who collected and studied Mapuche traditions since her arrival to La Patagonia Argentina, in 1920, until her death in 1962. This article exemplifies the terminology of phytonyms and zoonyms in Mapudungun traced in the work of the German folklorist. The morphology of the terms of flora and fauna, with special reference to the Neuquén area, will be examined. It was concluded that there is significant motivation in the Mapuche ethnobiological vocabulary, since in order to name the elements of the natural environment, the speakers use procedures of sound symbolism, among others.

Keywords : Mapudungun; lexicogenesis; phytonymy; zoonymy; sound symbolism.

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