Contribution to the Analysis of Italianisms in the Legal Field: Resources from the Region of Liburnia Cover Image

Prilog obradi talijanizama iz područja prava: izvori s područja Liburnije
Contribution to the Analysis of Italianisms in the Legal Field: Resources from the Region of Liburnia

Author(s): Nina Spicijarić Paškvan
Subject(s): History of Law, Local History / Microhistory, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Katedra Čakavskoga sabora Lovran
Keywords: Kastav; Veprinac; Mošćenice; statutes, laws; Italianisms;

Summary/Abstract: Medieval laws are an important source for studying the culture and history of a particular area. In addition, they represent significant sources for dialectological research and research in the field of contact linguistics. This paper analyses the representation of Italianisms in three legal documents from the region of Liburnia: The law of the town of Kastav (1400), The Veprinac law (1507) and The law of the Mošćenice commune (1637). The aim is to excerpt and etymologically and lexicologically analyse a part of Italianisms from the semantic field of law. The term Italianism in this paper includes borrowings from Venetian and Italian. Paper aims to determine both immediate and distant etymology of lexemes.

  • Issue Year: 9/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 13-30
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Croatian