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Item type:Publication, El sufijo –illo en la toponimia andina: a propósito del topónimo Carabaillo(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2013) - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, La fuente escrita como elemento corroborativo de los cambios fónicos: evidencia onomástica(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-12-22)Scientific etymology, as opposed to the naive or the purely impressionistic, finds its strongest support in historical linguistics, and, in turn, within this discipline, in its consecratory discovery of the regularity of sound change. By virtue of this attribute, the researcher, in this case the etymologist, is capable of finding the etymology of a given term of which he wasn’t yet sure. Furthermore, by taking into account the regularity of the change, he can predict it, even in absence of available corroborating corpus at hand. Empirical confirmation for an etymological prospect can be found either with the discovery of novel dialect forms not previously known, or by virtue of unsuspected evidence provided by philologically interpreted written record. The present work aims to demonstrate the importance of written source, printed or manuscript, as a rich and inexhaustible vein of information thanks to which the hypothetical postulations made by the etymologist can be tested and eventually corroborated. More specifically, this essay will test the impressive predictive potential of regular sound change by using examples taken from Quechua and Aymara. Our exposition goes as follows: after a general introduction on the development of historical linguistics in the Andean region, we focus our discussion on regular sound change and its predictive nature within Andean linguistics studies with corroborating evidence of dialectal as well as documental (published) material. A fourth section provides new and revealing archival evidence. In sum, the evidence provided, both printed or unpublished, revolves around the etymology of onomastic terms such as Inca, a nobility title, and Yauyos, a well-known Andean ethno-toponym. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Los riesgos de una lingüística desmemoriada: a propósito de la etimología puquina de "inca"(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2021-06-23)In this article, I would like to propose the original Puquina affiliation of the name <inca>, a term that was successively adopted by Aymara, Quechua, and Spanish, going through a series of formal and semantic adjustments and readjustments, as a consequence of persistent idiomatic re-accommodations, both spontaneous and deliberate. After offering some background on the subject, my discussion is organized into two detailed sections: in the first, I will offer the etymology of the term in form and meaning, proposing its pristine Puquina affiliation; in the second, I will thoroughly examine and discuss the thesis recently propounded by César Itier (2019), in which he attributes a Quechua origin to the term. I will demonstrate that the proposal put forward by my colleague lacks linguistic and philological support, proving how adherence to the thesis of the so-called “Quechuismo primitivo” (Cerrón-Palomino 2019) can lead to truly unsustainable conclusions not only from a purely linguistic point of view but also, and in a more dramatic way, from its purported interpretative projections regarding the socio-political and organizational Inca institutions. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, < Chanchán> y su trampa ortográfica: ni mochica ni quingnam sino quechumara(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2020-07-07)The Latin digraph <ch>, used in the spelling of Old Castilian in the notation of words of Greek origin, remained in force in modern Castilian until the middle of the 17th century. It should not be surprising then that it has been used with a value of /k/, sporadically, to record voices of American origin, particularly in the Andean toponymy. In these cases, its /k/ value interpretation has presented no major problems, since the writing of the place names involved was supported by their pronunciation, verifiable in the language of origin. However, when the place name ceased to have such support, because it was registered in a territory other than that of the language of origin, it was prone to being distorted in form and meaning, because it was interpreted as a local designation. This situation became even worse in contexts devoid of sufficient linguistic information. In such cases, the place names registered <ch> with were ambiguous in their phonic interpretation, since they could be read as in Spanish, with a value of /č/, or as in Latin, with a value of /k/, such as Nebrija feared, as can be seen in our quotation. In this way, the erratic reading of the mentioned spelling only contributed to the etymological obscuring of the name. In this note, we will demonstrate that this is precisely what happened with the well-known Peruvian northern coast place name, Chanchán.