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This volume describes the scripta used in Treviso in the first half of the fourteenth century, based on the study of different practical texts. The analysis of an accounting notebook allows for the first time to describe the more municipal variety of the Treviso dialect, while the edition of a handful of short legal texts helps reconstruct the characteristics of a vernacular influenced by Venetian.
The concepts of "plurilinguism" and "multilingualism" are normally used in studies dealing with current linguistic realities observed in communities of speakers. This volume collects eleven essays which apply these categories to historical settings, spanning a period from the Middle Ages until the late Renaissance. It demonstrates that contacts between languages have, for centuries, characterized and shaped the linguistic realities of Europe.
This volume provides a glossary (A–B) of the northern Italian dialectal lexicon found in the four redactions of Teofilo Folengo’s Baldus (1517–1544), the most important literary work written in macaronic Latin. The glossary is preceded by an introduction providing detailed information on Folengo’s language.
Il volume propone una variegata casistica di studi in cui le peculiarità linguistiche di singoli manoscritti o insiemi di codici romanzi medievali vengono interpretate anche alla luce del più ampio contesto costituito dalle tradizioni testuali alle quali essi appartengono, o con le quali vengono in contatto. La ricchezza dei generi letterari e degli ambienti socio-culturali studiati in questi contributi permette di ragionare in maniera comparata su alcuni dei metodi e degli ambiti più produttivi per una prospettiva di ricerca che, indagando l’innovazione linguistica come elemento connaturato alla trasmissione manoscritta dei testi romanzi, la valorizzi in quanto fenomeno particolarmente rappresentativo del fitto interscambio culturale proprio dell’Europa medievale.
Le présent manuel entend dresser un bilan actualisé des bases de documentation relatives aux différentes langues romanes. Il contient une description critique des anthologies établies dans une perspective linguistique et des corpus (électroniques et autres) réalisés. Cette description envisage autant les langues standard qu’un choix délibéré des variantes diatopiques et diastratiques les plus particularisées. Une section spécifique est consacrée aux langues créoles lexifiées à partir des langues romanes. Toutes les langues romanes et leurs variantes retenues s’accompagnent de textes commentés et sélectionnés en fonction de leur représentativité. Ce manuel compte ainsi fournir un aperçu général du développement de toutes langues romanes vivantes et de leurs variétés à partir des premières mises à l’écrit.
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This volume makes available in translation the texts that lie behind Chaucer's dream poems - The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, The House of Fame and Prologue to the Legend of Good Women. Chaucer's dream poems are now being increasingly studied and appreciated. With their attractively bookish dreamer figure and their graceful use of conventions and traditions, they have their distinctive place in Chaucer's work. But the nodern reader of these medieval poems particularly needs a sense of their literary context in the tradition of comparable narrative poems - largely in OId French - which Chaucer knew and drew upon. None of these French poems has ever been made available in Engl...
This volume describes the scripta used in Treviso in the first half of the fourteenth century, based on the study of different practical texts. The analysis of an accounting notebook allows for the first time to describe the more municipal variety of the Treviso dialect, while the edition of a handful of short legal texts helps reconstruct the characteristics of a vernacular influenced by Venetian.