Lexical aspects of linguistic creolization

Abstract

This article analyses the general features of expository texts, descriptive specifically, from the colonial period in the context of its writing process. Then the interest centres on the implications these texts have in the study of lexis within the process of creolization of the Spanish speech, indicating a few areas where the process is easily noticed. The features of this process are dealt in some detail together with the shaping of the dialect in its most basic aspects, exemplifying the theoretical aspects with instances from Gerónimo de Bibar's "Crónica".