Reflexions sobre la identitat de l’aragonés i la seua relació amb el català en els diccionaris aragonesos del segle XIX

Abstract

This paper collect and studies the opinions and reflections of the Aragonese lexicographers of the 19th century, a time in which the first regional vocabularies of Spanish appeared, on the linguistic identity of the Aragonese and its relation with the Castilian and Catalan languages. The reflections of the former-rector of the University of Zaragoza Jeronimo Borao (1859), show the individuality of the lexicon aragonese, different in many aspects from the Castilian, and their relations with Catalan and Provençal, with which it often shares a common lexical base. We also verified the necessity to consider, along with the romance linguistic comparison, the present dialectal data and the historical documentation in the study of the aragonese lexicon, and to complete or to clarify some deficiencies of the etymological and academic dictionaries.