PROBLEMAS Y DESAFÍOS DE LA TRADUCCIÓN DE LAS LENGUAS INDÍGENAS: LOS CASOS TOBA Y MAKÁ DE LA REGIÓN DEL GRAN CHACO (ARGENTINA Y PARAGUAY)

Abstract This paper focuses on the problems of translation, understood as a cross-linguistic and intercultural activity that involves making decisions not only on the linguistic (structural) level, but also at the level of communicative and performative language. In order to cover these two levels, we have selected, on the one hand, two grammar categories in Toba and Maka languages, which encode non referential and pragmatic meaning, and may therefore pose a difficulty in the translating process, resulting in the loss of essential meanings. Such categories are: possessive classifiers and evide...