History of the Portuguese Language I

Code:

FLUP0723

Acronym:

HLP1

Instance: 2004/2005 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Modern Languages and Literature - Portuguese and English Studies

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EPA	22	Official Study Plan - LEPA	4	2,5	5	-
EPE	8	Official Study Plan - LEPE	4	2,5	5	-
EPF	32	Official Study Plan - LEPF	4	2,5	5	-
EPI	90	Official Study Plan - LEPI	4	2,5	5	-
EPO	53	Official Study Plan - LEPO	4	2,5	5	-

Objectives

The aim of this subject is to provide students with groundings in three areas: analysis of linguistic variation theories and methods for the study of linguistic variation; its application in the specific domain of the history of the Portuguese language; and its integration in a more generic perspective, within the scope of Romance linguistics.

Program

This programme is based on the one that has been lectured by Professor Maria Helena Paiva and by Mrs. Clara Barros during the last few years.

1. Introduction: For a general theory of linguistic change.
1.1. Range and limits of several currents of historical linguistics: from the historical-comparative method to Martinet’s diachronic structuralism.
1.2. Connections between historical linguistics and other linguistic currents:
1.2.1. The generative perspective in relation to linguistic change;
1.2.2. Incidences of Labov’s Sociolinguistics in the renewal of historical linguistics;
1.2.3. The contribution of Linguistic Pragmatics to historical linguistics.
1.3. Object and method of historical linguistics. Sources for knowledge of linguistic past. Critique of evidence.

2. From Latin to Portuguese.
2.1. Pragmatic, sociolinguistic and linguistic characterization of vernacular Latin; main phonetic and phonologic, morphologic, syntactic and lexical features that distinguish it from classical Latin.
2.2. Romanization of the Iberian Peninsula: characterization of the “Iberian block” within the scope of Romania; linguistic fragmentation of the Peninsula. Substrata and superstrata.
2.3. Linguistic individuality in the North-West of the Peninsula.
2.4. Innovating characteristics of the Northern Romance Language in contrast to the Mozarab Romance Language.
2.5. Latin and romance: Latin-Portuguese documents.
2.6. Linguistic consequences of the reconquest and its repercussions in the Portuguese dialectal panorama.

Main Bibliography

BARROS, C., “Pragmática histórica: perspectivas de alargamento da metodologia de análise de textos medievais”, in: Actas do Encontro Comemorativo dos 25 anos do Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto, Porto, CLUP, 2002, vol. 1, pp. 131 - 140
EMILIANO, A., “O mais antigo documento latino-português (882 a.D.). Edição e estudo grafémico”, in: Verba. Anuario Galego e Filoloxía 26 (2000), pp. 7 – 42.
JUCKER, A. (ed.), Historical Pragmatics, Amsterdam, 1995
LABOV, W., Sociolinguistics Patterns, University of Pennsylvania Press. 1973; trad. francesa: Sociolinguistique, Paris, Minuit, 1976.
MARTINET, A., Economie des Changements Phonétiques (Traité de Phonologie Diachronique) (1955), 3ª ed., Berna, A. Frank, 1976; trad. espanhola, Madrid, Gredos, 1974.
MEILLET, A., La Méthode Comparative en Linguistique Historique (1924), Paris, Champion, 1970.
SILVA, Rosa Virgínia Mattos e, “Sobre a mudança linguística: uma revisão histórica”, in: Boletim de Filologia, T. XXVI, 1980/81, pp. 83-99.
TRAUGOTT, E. C., “The role of pragmatics in semantic change”, in: Verscheuren, J. (ed.), Pragmatics in 1998. Selected Papers from the 6th International Pragmatics Conference, Vol. II, 93- 102. Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association

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CÂMARA, J. Mattoso, História e Estrutura da Língua Portuguesa, 4ª ed., Rio de Janeiro, 1985.
CASTRO, I., Curso de História da Língua Portuguesa. Lisboa, Universidade Aberta, 1991.
CINTRA, L. F. Lindley, Estudos de Dialectologia Portuguesa, Lisboa, Sá de Costa, 1983.
LAUSBERG, H., Linguística Românica, Trad., Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1974.
MAIA, C. de Azevedo, História do Galego-Português. Estudo linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal desde o séc. XIII ao séc. XVI, Coimbra, 1986.
NETO, S. da Silva, História da Língua Portuguesa (1952), 3ª ed., Rio de Janeiro, Presença, 1979.
-, A constituição do Português como língua nacional, "Arquivos da Universidade de Lisboa", XIX, 1960, pp. 103-116.
NUNES, J. J., Compêndio de Gramática Histórica Portuguesa (Fonética e Morfologia), 6ª ed., Lisboa, Liv. Clássica Editora, 1980.
TEYSSIER, P., História da Língua Portuguesa, Trad., Lisboa, Sá da Costa, 1982.
WILLIAMS, E. D., Do Latim ao Português. Fonologia e Morfologia Histórica da Língua Portuguesa, Trad., Rio de Janeiro, Tempo Brasileiro, 1975.
Dicionários
COROMINAS, J. e PASCUAL, J. A., Diccionario Crítico Etimológico Castellano y Hispánico, 5 vols., Madrid, Gredos, 1980-3.
MACHADO, J. Pedro, Dicionário Etimológico da Língua Portuguesa, 7ª ed., Lisboa, 1995.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical and practical classes

Software

No specific software required.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

Positive classification in the evaluation components

Calculation formula of final grade

Distributed evaluation:
Average mark of the written test plus final exam, together with other evaluation elements

Final evaluation:
Final exam classification.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable.

Classification improvement

According to the Assessment Regulations in force.

Observations

Language of instruction: Portuguese