{"id":16378,"date":"2022-01-25T01:11:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T01:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=16378"},"modified":"2022-02-06T20:07:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:07:22","slug":"corina-chiru-2022-congress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/corina-chiru-2022-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Corina Chiru (2022 Congress)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Daniela Corina Chiru<\/strong><br \/>\n(<em>Independent Scholar<\/em>)<\/h2>\n<h2><strong>&#8220;Arabisms in Bilingual Morisco Manuscripts:<br \/>\nReflections of an Islamic hiero-Sprachbund&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>Abstract of Paper<br \/>\n57th International Congress on Medieval Studies<br \/>\n(Online, 2022)<\/h3>\n<h4>Session on<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Alter(n)ative Alphabets in the Iberian Middle Ages&#8221;<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Co-sponsored by<br \/>\nthe <strong>Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong><br \/>\nand the Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)<\/h4>\n<h4>Organized by Donald W. Wood<\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2022-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 International Congress on Medieval Studies Program<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<h4>Abstract<\/h4>\n<p>Akin to other Muslim minorities, the Moriscos created an Islamic lexicon by adopting Arabic loanwords into their writings, despite the existence of apparent equivalents in the Romance vernacular, and seemingly in a concerted effort to preserve their religious writings free of Christian semantic connotations. However, the use of similar vocabulary and syntax patterns among communities that are geographically separated and linguistically distanced seems motivated by the employment of a common liturgical language \u2013 in this case, Arabic. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casassas.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Casassas Canals<\/a> postulated in 2010, the existence of a <em>hiero-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sprachbund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sprachbund<\/a><\/em> could be at the core of linguistic variation in function of the religious affiliation of a given language\u2019s speakers. The Romance vernacular spoken by the Moriscos would thus be linked to an Islamic hiero-Sprachbund.<\/p>\n<p>This cryptic Iberian community articulated its linguistic reality around two levels of diglossia \u2013 on one hand, a written \u2018calque language\u2019, strongly Arabized and employed mainly for didactical and liturgical purposes, and on the other hand &#8211; the spoken vernacular. The latter one would have gradually received the influence of the former, eventually leading to the widespread use of a vast array of Arabic loanwords in the common Morisco parlance, at that point an Islamic hiero-variety of Romance (as opposed to its contemporary counterpart \u2014 the vernacular spoken by the Christian faithful).<br \/>\nThe hypothesis of such a religious linguistic alliance seems indeed very probable, especially when placing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aljamiado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aljamiado<\/a>-Arabic bilingual texts under scrutiny. This paper will provide a survey of surprising orthographies of Arabisms in the vicinity of the original Arabic terms and argue that, by being fully assimilated into the Moriscos\u2019 Romance, they can be seen as reflections of the phenomenon proposed by Casassas Canals.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniela Corina Chiru (Independent Scholar) &#8220;Arabisms in Bilingual Morisco Manuscripts: Reflections of an Islamic hiero-Sprachbund&#8221; Abstract of Paper 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Online, 2022) Session on &#8220;Alter(n)ative Alphabets in the Iberian Middle Ages&#8221; Co-sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence and the Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA) Organized by Donald W. 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