2022-03-23 AMERLEX

AMERLEX

This Digital Humanities project aims to create an online and open database (AMERLEX-DATABASE) that systematically brings together the lexical Americanisms present in a selection of Spanish and English texts on America published during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This research is based on the compilation of the following data of the identified Americanisms: motto, spellings, work, year of publication, edition number, textual typology, author and its origin, grammatical category, lexical area, language of origin, area where it is registered, it shows in Spanish and English texts, definition in dictionaries of the time (if it is registered), in addition to other fields that are considered of interest.