Modern Judeo-Provençal as Known from Its Sole Textual Testimony: Harcanot et Barcanot (Critical Edition and Linguistic Analysis)
Résumé |
This study offers a linguistic description of the idiom of the Jews
of the Comtat Venaissin ("Judeo-Provençal") at the end of the 18th
century, based on a critical edition of the only relevant document
illustrating this language, a theatrical play in verse entitled
Harcanot et Barcanot. The introduction provides a philological
inventory of all known sources of "Judeo-Provençal." The critical
and variorum edition of the text, accompanied by linear glosses in
English, is followed by a commentary comprising a glossary and
analysis of all relevant linguistic features. It reveals, inter
alia, that this language possessed words pertaining to the
linguistic repertoire of French Jews since the Middle Ages; as for
the phonetic features of the Jewish dialect of Provençal, their
etiology is to be found in the history of the communities. The
study concludes with a reassessment of the nature of linguistic
variation in the dialect of the Jews of Provence. |
Mots-clés |
|
Citation | Nahon, P. (2021). Modern Judeo-Provençal as Known from Its Sole Textual Testimony: Harcanot et Barcanot (Critical Edition and Linguistic Analysis). Journal of Jewish Languages, 9, 1-73. |
Type | Article de périodique (Anglais) |
Date de publication | 2021 |
Nom du périodique | Journal of Jewish Languages |
Volume | 9 |
Pages | 1-73 |
URL | https://www.academia.edu/58609524/Modern_Judeo_Proven%C3%... |