María Salomea Wielopolska y su mundo latinoamericano (a modo de homenaje)

this article is a sort of homage to the literary work of maría salomea wielopolska, author of three works devoted to latin-america. the first section presents the structure and content of the works themselves, foregrounding the author？s erudition as well as her wide knowledge of the nature, history and culture of venezuela, colombia, ecuador and perú. the second part is the etymological, morphological and semantic analysis of the large number of americanisms quoted by wielopolska. the most frequent are those derived from indigenism, but there are cases of mixed indo-spanish lexical items (indigenism with spanish prefixes), or hispanic-indigenous. the semantic changes in the words of a spanish origin are mainly based upon metaphors, permutations, widening or reduction of meaning.