Abstract

The present article is the continuation of Apuntes sociolinguisticos sobre la presencia de argentinismos en el lexico del espanol de Chile (Salamanca, 2010). Ten new words which have been identified as highly likely to be Argentinisms or Lunfardisms in Chilean Spanish are identified. The introduction and theoretical framework situate this study within the context of studies of loan words in Chilean Spanish (specifically, those dealing with loans from indigenous languages and from English). The methodology section describes the creation of the corpus and the procedures used to detect Argentinisms. The next section presents the 10 words identified as Argentinisms, and provides evidence for this classification in each case. The final section provides interpretations of the results and projections based on them, and concludes that the general process of cultural Argentinization, and the specific process of linguistic Argentinization, are historicallytraceable phenomena that continue to operate in contemporary Chile.