El pseudo-arabista Escolano Carme Barceló Torres
The Valencian historian Gaspar Escolano (XVII century) collects in his Décadas the etymologics of Valencian names and place-names given by other historians. The author has extracted and ordered them alphabetically.
Els “murtats” encara Germà Colon
A study about the etymology of murtat (guide, messenger) through text criticism. It appears in Ramon Muntaner’s Crónica, but its meaning has not been well interpreted by other etymologists.
Uns brins de mossarabisme valencià Joan Coromines
The author studies etymologically two Arabisms: roder, which he considers to be derived from rotair, not from rodar, and its synonym cullerat, often found in medieval Valencian texts.
“Decadència” i “castellanització” Joan Fuster
This article speaks about the presence of the Castillian language in the Valencian society from XVI to XIX centuries. It pays special attention to its influence on drama and preaching.
El poeta com a lector de poesia Jaume Pérez Montaner
A poem is not an isolated text, but it belongs to a literary tradition. The author emphasizes the importance of a biassed reading as stated in Harold Bloom’s theories.
La invenció literària de sant Pere Pasqual Jaume Riera i Sans
The author reconstructs the story of Sant Pere Pasqual thanks to his detalled critical analysis of the religious works attributed to this non-existent Valencian saint of the XIII century, invented by fray Pedro San Cecilio in 1629.
Una polèmica sobre la llengua literària Vicent Salvador
A study of the journalistic controversies in 1908 and 1909 about the literary language of Valencian writers. The participation of outstanding men of letters and the discursive mechanism of the controversy give to this fact an interest that goes beyond its value as a mere sociolinguistic document.
El català al País Valencià: retracció i resistències Vicent Pitarch
The use of Catalan has been restricted to rural areas in the País Valencià. This fact hinders it from becoming an adequate language for communication in our present industrial society. The author proposes the active linguistic fidelity to improve this limit situation.
Els estudis filològics universitaris al País Valencià Emili Casanova
Brief comments on the doctorate thesis and dissertations read in the Universities of Valencia from 1982 to 1986, which dealt with any aspect of Catalan Philology or any topics related to it.
