Darío Rojas

List of John Benjamins publications in which Darío Rojas is involved.

Article

Rojas, Darío 2016 Polysemy in 19th century linguistic studies in Chile: Attitudes and ideology History of Linguistics 2014: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII), Vila Real, Portugal, 25–29 August 2014, Assunção, Carlos, Gonçalo Fernandes and Rolf Kemmler (eds.), pp. 247–256 | Article

This paper analyzes the attitudes towards polysemy in the works of Chilean Spanish-speaking grammarians and lexicographers from the nineteenth century. These attitudes are mainly negative: the authors consider that words should have only one meaning (the “proper” meaning). Such a belief can be best… read more