Chapter 10. A lingua de Martin Codax, entre a tradición e o xénero

Abstract

This chapter studies the language used by Martin Codax in his seven cantigas from two perspectives. 1) Codax’s linguistic expression within the cantiga de amigo genre, with phono-morphological traces that are specific to this genre, namely the presence of forms preserving intervocalic Latin -l-, -n-, and use of the verb form treides, among others. 2) The use and presence of words that single out the literary production of this jongleur from the other troubadours, either because they are forms that belong almost exclusively to the poetic register and the amigo genre (senneira, ergas, velida), or because they are unusual words in medieval texts (mirar).