Panorama dialectal de los romances peninsulares entre los siglos XI y XV
A panoramic view of the Romance peninsular dialects between the XIth and XVth centuries

Author(s): Janusz Pawlik
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Romance dialect; peninsular language; common features; fast evolution; language contact
Summary/Abstract: The present paper has as a goal to present a panoramic view of the linguistic situation of the Peninsula in the Late Middle Ages. Based on written documents we are able to outline the process of evolution and the main characteristics of the five peninsular dialects descended from Latin, i. e.: Galician, Astur-Leonese, Castilian, Aragonese, Catalan. We also intend to roughly evaluate the popular opinion that it is Castilian which overtook in its evolution other medieval dialects of Latin.

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