Sobre el espa？ol de Chile: del período colonial al independiente

many aspects of the varieties of spanish from latin america can be explained by considering their historic roots. in the same way, the interpretation of modern synchrony helps to understand its diachronic precedents, including the graphemic and phonetic features of the written language. the frst part of the present article explores this issue by focusing on texts by neruda. then it compares neruda？s texts to the corpus of the chilean úrsula suárez, which draws from the frst half of the 18th century. starting from this synchronic snapshot and with the help of references from later documents, a text written in the same chile during the years of the independence is analyzed. the analysis concludes by pointing out that there are both patterns that continue as well as those that change. several of these patterns are sociolinguistic and normative in nature in the colonial spanish on the brink of the independent period. these evolutionary patterns can be applicable, in general, to all the varieties of spanish from latin america.