I want to create keyboard shortcuts to move the text caret to the next word and/or select the next word.
MacOS has a default shortcut for this but I don't like it and there is no way to change it.
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Came looking for the same. Seems the answer is no. 
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Bumping in hopes this is perhaps added in a new update
BTT allows you to send any keyboard shortcut, so you can send the standard macOS text navigation shortcuts. (like the initial post here already mentions)
E.g. opt+arrow right will jump to the end of the current word, if you follow that by an "arrow right" you'll be at the beginning oft the next word. Shift+opt+arrow right will select that next word.
So this example would select the next word:
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What if I want to set my "opt+Right" shortcut to something else? Is there another way to recreate the functionality of "moving the text caret to another word" as an action?
Please excuse me if I didn't fully understood your questions.
This will map "control + right to "opt + right"
If you need to map"opt+right" to something else:
lets say I want "control + right" to be "jump one word right" and I want "opt + right" to be "jump to the next web page"
Your method will not work because once I map "control + right" to "opt + right" then I can't change each shortcut independently.
A simple workaround would be like this (because the current action sequence will still be executed even if BTT has been disabled temporarily but no new triggers will be allowed until it is enabled again)
Alternatively you can try this option, but that might not work in all situations:
Interesting, I didn't know about this action. "Enable/Disable BTT"
My idea would have been: I think left opt+right does the same as left opt + right opt + right (both opt modifiers down)
So, Control + right does that. Then left opt+right can do something else.
Does anyone understand that. 
Anyway, I'm too tired to try it out.