"The language of Enrique de Villena's ""Arte cisoria"""

This dissertation is a descriptive study of the language of Enrique de Villena's Arte cisoria (1423). The short introduction on Villena, the Cisoria, and his other works, is followed by chapters on the phonology, inflectional morphology, derivational morphology, lexicon, and syntax found in the text. The concluding chapter summarizes the study's findings, and contrasts them with other studies of Villena's language (primarily those of Santiago Lacuesta, Pascual, Garbutt-Parrales, and Morreale); and notes differences between Villena's language and the fifteenth century norm. Characteristics of particular interest include the high number of Latinisms and Catalanisms, many of which are first documentations, the appearance of conservative imperfect and conditional forms in -ie, and extreme instances of hyperbaton. The edition used for the linguistic analysis is Russel Vernon Brown's critical edition of the text.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Spanish

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Westmoreland, Maurice James

Contributors dc:contributor

• Blaylock, Curtis

• Language, Linguistics
• Literature, Romance
• Language, General

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1990 Westmoreland, Maurice James

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9114458
(UMI)AAI9114458

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/20299