(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2014-12) ALMEIDA, Miguél Eugenio
In Excerpts from the Rule of St. Benedict, we selected a corpus of 113 (one hundred and thirteen) occurrences of the definite article and combinations of this one with prepositions. They were transcribed by diplomatically Bueno ((1941 p.48-52), the " Collecção de Inéditos portuguêzes dos séculos XIV e XV", pub. Friar F. S. Soaventura, t. p.249- I 253. Thus, we see the formation of the article in question be within the period of archaic Portuguese. Accordingly, we find, by means of occurring items, the process of formation of these articles by the passage from Latin into archaic Portuguese applying the theoretical basis of Portuguese Philology, mainly. These articles were distributed in the following topics: the isolated definite articles; implicit articles forming prepositions by combination; article and the crasis.
