Latim ou português? Estruturas vernaculares no foral de Santa Cruz de Vilariça

Joanna Serafim

Latim ou português? Estruturas vernaculares no foral de Santa Cruz de Vilariça

Publication date: 08.10.2024

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 24 (2024), Special Issue (2024), pp. 101-109

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.24.011.20344

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Latim ou português? Estruturas vernaculares no foral de Santa Cruz de Vilariça

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Medieval charters played a fundamental role in establishing rights and duties between the king and local communities. In Portugal, until the reign of D. Dinis (1279–1325), all official documentation from the royal chancellery was exclusively in Latin, although Portuguese had long circulated as a spoken language, but also in writing in unofficial contexts. Therefore, the first charters constitute a privileged corpus for the study of the Portuguese language, since the same content, in both Latin and Portuguese, is transmitted across various locations and time periods. The 12th and 13th centuries are a phase of transition and affirmation of Portuguese as a written language and these documents reflect it, as they contain forms and structures typical of Classical and Medieval Latin, as well as from the vernacular language. This article aims, on the one hand, to identify the vernacular lexical forms present in the charter of Santa Cruz de Vilariça, written in Latin, and to understand why they are incorporated into it; on the other hand, to analyse the syntactic structures typical of Portuguese that coexist with Latin casual syntax.

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Medieval Portuguese charters, Old Portuguese, Medieval Latin, history of the Portuguese language

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Information: Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 24 (2024), Special Issue (2024), pp. 101-109

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.24.011.20344

Article type: Original article

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Portuguese: Latim ou português? Estruturas vernaculares no foral de Santa Cruz de Vilariça

English: Latin or Portuguese? Vernacular structures in the charter of Santa Cruz de Vilariça

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Joanna Serafim

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3206-6878

University of Zurich

Published at: 08.10.2024

Article status: Open

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Joana Serafim is graduated in Classical Languages and Literatures from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon and completed a PhD in Literature at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She has taught at various higher education institutions and is currently professor of Portuguese Language and Literature in Portuguese at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. Additionally, she is head of the Carlos de Oliveira Chair of the Camões Institute. Joana Serafim is an integrated researcher of the Philology group at CLUL (Center of Linguistics at the University of Lisbon) and her main research area concerns textual criticism, particularly Latin and Portuguese medieval texts. She is co-PI in the project Portuguese municipal charters in the Middle Ages: an historical and linguistic approach in the digital era, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PTDC/HAR-HIS/5065/2020).

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