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L’origen de l’ictiònim català «alatxa» i els seus congèneres romànics s’ha atribuït al tractament mossàrab de «ce» del mot llatí «hallece», traspassat a l’àrab. Tanmateix, segons Joan Veny, la distribució geogràfica d’aquest tipus lèxic per les costes de la Mediterrània occidental, on dialectes centromeridionals italoromànics practiquen el canvi «ce» " «tx», convida a replantejar el seu origen geogràfic que seria el litoral de Toscana i Nàpols d’on la isoglossa hauria passat a Ligúria que, per la seva força expansiva, hauria propagat el mot cap a les costes occitanes i d’aquí a les catalanovalencianes fins arribar a Andalusia: seria un exemple més de l’expansió lingüística genovesa que va afectar mots de l’àmbit nàutic i de la pesca. L’estudi de l’origen de «punxar, punxa i punxó» és una mostra de la necessitat de revisar críticament el concepte de romandalusí o mossàrab. Per a Josep Martines, són mots corrents i antics en català i en aragonès, i coneguts en varietats del castellà oriental; no segueixen l’evolució fonètica esperable en aquestes llengües. Per explicar-los, s’havia recorregut a propostes ad hoc o al mossàrab. La documentació i la fonètica històriques i la geografia lingüística mostren que són vocables coneguts i propis de l’occità, fins i tot allà on «kt» llatí evoluciona vers «it» i no vers la palatal africada. Ens trobem, doncs, davant manlleus antics, potser transmesos inicialment com a termes d’ofici des d’Occitània vers el sud.

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El contacte amb els aragonesos ha estat un condicionant del lèxic del català del País Valencià. Pretenem mostrar ací amb exemples concrets l’antiguitat d’aquesta influència. Partim del despullament d’un corpus textual format per documentació del s. XIII en llatí, en català, en aragonès i en espanyol. Estudiem una selecció de tres menes de mots extrets d’aqueix corpus: a) mots que, tot i pertànyer l’espanyol general o més tost a les varietats orientals, pogueren arribar al català amb els aragonesos establits al Regne de València des del s. XIII, o amb el contacte que, des de llavors, mantingué Aragó (sobretot, la regió meridional) amb el nou regne; b) mots que es podrien explicar com a aragonesismes pròpiament dits del català del País Valencià i, sovint, també de la resta del català occidental (a voltes amb continuïtat per l’occità) i c) mots que comparteix el català del País Valencià i, en general, el català occidental amb l’aragonès.

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Abstract: During the Middle Ages, Latin was taught for beginners in the Romance language in Spain, as well as in other European regions. A number of explanations in the vernacular were incorporated into Latin texts. An example of this tradition is the so-called grammaticae proverbiandi. They are characterized by a proverbium or sentence in the vernacular, which helps to understand the Latin structure better. This is the case of the Regulae by Esteban de Masparrautha, printed in 1492 in Pamplona, with examples in Navarrese-Aragonese, as well as in 1498 in Valencia, with examples in Catalan. Emma Falque (2011) has recently published an edition of the incunabulum of Pamplona, which includes an appendix showing the proverbia in Catalan.In this paper, the characteristic dialectal features of Western Catalan — more specifically, from the Southern area — will be determined by linguistic analysis of the abovementioned examples. Features that do not have any dialectal connotation, as they were generally common in medieval texts regardless of their origin, will be also discussed. Some of these latter features still show in certain subdialects, while others have disappeared.Key words: Catalan language, history of language, dialectology, Valencian, Aragonese.

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This paper attempts to answer the question what is Aragonese? It offers a detailed description of the phonetic (accentuation, vowel and consonant systems), morphological and syntactic, and lexical characteristics of Aragonese, based on a great wealth of both diachronic data and materials recently gathered from living speech. The paper makes a description of the common traits defining the different linguistic varieties of Aragonese.

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The paper focuses on the description of the pre-Roman component and its influence upon Aragonese. It casts light upon one of the factors proving most difficult to analyze, despite its importance for the description of Aragonese corn pare d to other neighbouring Romance varieties. The author reviews the various pre-Rom an linguistic substrata in North Aragon and the traces they left in the pronunciation, morphology and, more specifically, on lexis and toponymy.

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The author analyzes the role of Ribagorzan varieties on the creation of normative Aragonese. It can be observed that most of the traits of such varieties fail to appear in the accepted rules; this seems to stem not only from linguistic criteria, but rather from attitudes of méfiance catalane. Over the past years, a number of voices have called for greater attention to Ribagorzan varieties within normative Aragonese.

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On the basis of a discussion of the structural expansion of the Aragonese Crown’s feudal system over Sharq al-Andalus during the 12th and 13th centuries, which was similar to that occurred in other European countries at the time, this paper offers an assessment of the contribution of Aragonese immigrants to the repopulation of the País Valencià during the 13th century. After explaining the different quantitative weight of Aragonese colonists in the various Valencian areas, with very little presence in the north of Castelló, a review is made of Aragonese society in the 12th century, focusing on those traits having an influence on the linguistic levelling process with their contemporary Catalan colonists in Valencian areas. Emphasis is made on the linguistic duality between Aragonese and Spanish in the Aragonese kingdom in the 12th and 13th centuries and on the different demographics, with greater population density north of the river Ebro. This leads us to describe Aragonese society as a dual one, having a different numerical contribution to language contact in the creation of Valencian society of the low Middle Ages.

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The paper deals first with those bibliographic sources concerning the relationship between Catalan and Aragonese lexis, analyzling the use of the two vulgar tongues in contact made by sources from the Aragonese area. Then, there is a study of a number of code-switching phenomena in various marriage documents from the 16th century found in the records of the Municipal Archives of Massalió (Terol), which show instances of such code-switching.

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This paper deals with various questions concerning the two types of border involved in the so-called xurra area: the linguistic border between Catalan (Valencian) and Castilian Spanish (Castilian-Aragonese), and the administrative border between Aragon and País Valencià. Based on data from linguistic atlases (ALEANR, ALPI) and linguistic monographs, the author also examines the distinguishing features of such varieties (basically catalanisms and aragonesisms), and different possibilities for interpretation. Finally, an attempt at a typology of border xurro varieties and speakers is offered: varieties (and speakers) from linguistic borders (1), from administrative borders (2), from linguistic and administrative borders (3), and the exceptional case of the Racó d’Ademús (4), with its own isolated areas.