The interrelationship between Medieval Latin and the notaries’ mother tongue in the linguistic setting of the Romanian Principalities Cover Image

Interferenţa dintre mediolatina de redacţie românească, limba maternă a notarilor şi mediul lingvistic din Ţările Române
The interrelationship between Medieval Latin and the notaries’ mother tongue in the linguistic setting of the Romanian Principalities

Author(s): Cristina Halichias
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Ovidius University Press
Keywords: Medieval Latin; linguistic nucleon; vernacular language; linguistic setting.

Summary/Abstract: The historical situation of the Medieval Latin generated a phenomenon that is characteristic of itself: the existence of a pan medieval linguistic nucleon around which a series of particular characteristics have been developed, characteristics that were typical of certain periods and certain environments (chancellery, author), originated in the influence of the vernacular languages and the development of the society. In the documents issued by chancelleries in Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania, the author is trying to signal the presence of some lexical and morph-syntactic elements created by the influence of the Romanian language, the notaries’ mother tongue or the one used by other chancelleries and the linguistic setting in the Romanian Principalities.

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 95-101
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian
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