TY - JOUR
TI - Latin or Portuguese? Vernacular structures in the charter of Santa Cruz de Vilariça
AU - Serafim, Joanna
TI - Latin or Portuguese? Vernacular structures in the charter of Santa Cruz de Vilariça
AB - 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.
VL - Volume 24 (2024)
IS - Special Issue (2024)
PY - 2024
SN - 1732-8705
C1 - 2084-3917
SP - 101
EP - 109
DO - 10.4467/20843917RC.24.011.20344
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/latim-ou-portugues-estruturas-vernaculares-no-foral-de-santa-cruz-de-vilarica
KW - Medieval Portuguese charters
KW - Old Portuguese
KW - Medieval Latin
KW - history of the Portuguese
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