The elaboration of a small domain corpus for the dialectal characterization of eastern Andalusia

Abstract

In this paper we present the corpus that has served to study the dialectal features of eastern Andalusia from a diachronic perspective. For this, we have taken as the focus of our research the most eastern zone of the Andalusian varieties, in particular, the Tierra de Vera. An enclave which is included dialectally in the Murcian dialect, although it belongs geographically to the Andalusian territory.

In order to know the early linguistic characterization of this Murcian Andalusia, we use notarial documents from the 16^th and 17^th centuries. This type of documentation is most useful for the analysis of the lexical dialectal features and, thus, for the identification of its filiation with the oriental peninsular varieties. More specifically, we study four documented voices from our corpus: arambre, cetra, tenaja and orón, the analyses of which have corroborated the importance of archival sources for historical dialectal studies and, in this particular case, for data collection that allows us to determine the dating and the location of the Murcian isogloss in eastern Andalusia.