%0 Journal Article %T Analisis Documental Y Linguistico de un Testamento Meride£¿o del siglo XVII %A Obediente Sosa %A Enrique %A Ramos %A Elvira %A Morelia Torres %A Lis %A Mart¨ªnez %A Hern¨¢n %A D¨ªaz %A Lourdes %J Boletin de Linguistica %D 2005 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X abstract this paper focuses on the process of documentary creation of a testament written in the old province of merida in 1620 with particular interest in the grapho-phonic, morphological, and syntactic analysis of the text. the document reveals a language with the characteristic properties of a system in transition between two linguistic norms: the disappearing medieval norm and the modern one in process of settling. it offers a vision, partial though, of the spanish written in m¨¦rida in the first half of the xvii century. this particular spanish showed already the features of the context in which it was evolving: the social and cultural structures inside which it was settling, changing, and functioning. %K m¨¦rida (venezuela) %K testaments %K xvii century spanish. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0798-97092005000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en