Re: Seeking info on Old Spanish

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On Tuesday 27 November 2001 08:36, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> > Date:         Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:52:39 -0800
> > From: Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
> >
> > from: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/santiago/osppron.html
> >
> > Other than that, it's quite surprising how little there is about old
> > Spanish. I guess there's not as much interest in it as there is in Anglo
> > Saxon.
>
> Just a thought: Did you try searching for Old Castilian?
>
> The Spanish Colonial period followed right after the Reconquista ---
> Columbus landed 284 days after Granada fell --- and though Castile and
> Aragon had been in personal union for 33 years at that point, I'm not
> sure that the Spanish themselves thought of Spain as a linguistic or
> political unit at that time.
>
That's a good point. Another idea might be to look for studies on
the language of Cervantes - he's in the right time-frame, and you
should be able to find the original text easily, to give you a
corpus.

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