Transculturización, adaptación, reajustes e influencias en el léxico de la época de los Austrias: interacciones en los zoónimos Canarios

Abstract

The strong historical link between the Canary Islands and the Americas has facilitated the existence of a tight lexical relationship between both territories. This connection began right from the period of their conquest and colonization. So, the creation of the new lexical repertoires in the Canaries and America shares the same processes, timing and features. But this likeness, often studied and justified, could not hide the peculiarities of the Canarian lexicon that follow from the historical and social facts of the Canarian Europeanization process. These singularities appear in different jargons, but perhaps it is specially evident in the case of animal names: the lack of terms derived from the language of the guanches, the scarce presence of words coming from the west of the Spanish mainland, contrary to what happens in other repertoires, and the degree of wealth and the spread of literacy, are the most important characteristics of this lexical field.