The latinity of the Wycliffite Psalters

Lis, Kinga

The latinity of the Wycliffite Psalters

dc.contributor.author	Lis, Kinga
dc.date.accessioned	2023-06-07T13:25:08Z
dc.date.available	2023-06-07T13:25:08Z
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.description.abstract	The objective of the paper is to re-evaluate the claims reiterated in the literature on the Wycliffite Bible concerning the etymological make-up of the text(s). The Wycliffite Bible, or - rather - its two versions, are late 14th-century Middle English renditions from Latin, commonly regarded as either replete with Latinisms or at least heavily dependent on Latin in terms of vocabulary. These claims, however, have thus far not been corroborated by any evidence. The paper will endeavour to fill this gap by means of an analysis that will focus on the nominal layer of a selected portion of the text(s), i.e. the first fifty Psalms. It will investigate the etymological make-up of each Psalter independently (as they do diverge intermittently) yet always with reference to the Latin source text. This procedure enables one to compare exclusively those lexical items which can be classified as nominal equivalents in all three versions, i.e. the Latin text and the two Wycliffite Psalters. The choice of nouns for this purpose is important due to the tendency among languages to borrow nouns more frequently than items of any other grammatical category. This phenomenon renders the nominal component of the texts the most suitable to vividly illustrate the extent of the presence of Latinisms in the Wycliffite Psalters.	pl
dc.identifier.citation	Language change : faces and facets, red. M. Charzyńska-Wójcik, J. Wójcik, A. Bloch-Rozmej, Lublin 2014, s. 129-171	pl
dc.identifier.isbn	978-83-7702-958-9
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/5143
dc.language.iso	en	pl
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo KUL	pl
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Studies in Linguistics and Methodology;7
dc.rights	Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/	*
dc.subject	etymology	pl
dc.subject	Latin	pl
dc.subject	loanword	pl
dc.subject	Psalter	pl
dc.subject	Wycliffite	pl
dc.subject	etymologia	pl
dc.subject	łacina	pl
dc.subject	zapożyczenia	pl
dc.subject	Psałterz	pl
dc.subject	Wycliffe	pl
dc.title	The latinity of the Wycliffite Psalters	pl
dc.title.alternative	Łacińskość Psałterzy związanych z Wycliffem	pl
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	pl