Patrones de incorporación en el nahuatl del siglo XVI

Abstract

In the written material from XVI century Central Mexico the presence of special types of linguistics entities; better known as couplets or lexical binomials is frequent. These so called forms are construed by juxtaposing two terms that are taken as a unit and will render a different meaning other than the addition of the two terms. There is a canonical form in which these forms appear without any flexion or derivation. But the research carried on this paper will take into account only the couplets that present nominal incorporation; thus expanding to more complex forms. To stress the semantic modification that will probably emerge from these expanded couplets will be the ultimate aim of this paper.