Problems of fragmentation of the Latin language continuum in the intellectual history of Romanic linguistics

Maksym W. Kyrchanoff
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Maksym W. Kyrchanoff: Voronezh State University

Russian Social and Humanitarian Studies, 2025, vol. 17, issue 1, 29-58

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to analyze the perception and revision of the problems of the history of the common Romance state and the dialectical fragmentation of Latin in the intellectual history of Romance philology. The author analyzes various viewpoints on the common Romance state and the problems of the history of literary and vulgar Latin, including various arguments that were proposed in the history of Romance linguistics. The novelty of the study lies in the analysis of interpretations of the common Romance state and the history of Latin in the contexts of intellectual history and the history of ideas, including the resource of historical revisionism, since the history of science, including Romance linguistics, is a change of various interpretative models. Materials and methods. Methodologically, the article is based on the principles of interdisciplinary historiography proposed in intellectual and cultural histories, which allow, by revising the viewpoints proposed in the previous historiographic tradition, to analyze the problems of the common Romance state as part of the history of ideas and an invented historiographic tradition or intellectual construct. Results. The results of the study suggest that 1) the idea of a common Romance condition in the history of Romance studies became a historiographical concept and an invented tradition, 2) discussions and debates about the existence or absence of a common Romance condition, as well as the dialectal division of Latin and the role of social factors in the development of Vulgar Latin stimulated the search for new ideas, contributed to the development of Romance philology and the genesis of new interpretative models and explanations, 3) the controversy and debatable nature of the concepts proposed in the history of Romance philology is revealed through the prism of interpretative models of diglossia and social linguistics, which actualizes the potential of revisionism as a universal method for generating new meanings and explanations in modern humanities, including Romance linguistics.

Keywords: Romance studies; history of ideas; intellectual history; overall Romance state; Latin; Classical Latin; Vulgar Latin; Latin and Romance; social factors; genesis of the Romance languages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.12731/2077-1770-2025-17-1-463

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