Contribution to the Analysis of Italianisms in the Legal Field (II): Resources From the Region of Liburnia Cover Image

Prilog obradi talijanizama iz područja prava (II): izvori s područja Liburnije
Contribution to the Analysis of Italianisms in the Legal Field (II): 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, which contain a suspended linguistic image of the written legal text of their time, represent a significant source for dialectological research and research in the field of contact linguistics. This paper aims to excerpt Italian and Venetian loanwords that belong to the semantic field of law from 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). Each obtained lexeme will be analysed etymologically and lexically, and its immediate and distant etymology will be determined.

  • Issue Year: 10/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 71-90
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Croatian