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Negation in Contact: French and Occitan
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 444-459, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Development of negative markers along the lines of the well‐known Jespersen's Cycle occurred in a wide number of languages. This article investigates the possibility of contact playing a role in such developments in Lengadocian Occitan. The evolution of negation in Lengadocian Occitan followed two main lines.
Xavier C. A. Bach
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Studia Linguistica, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 130-166, April 2022., 2022 Abstract In this paper, we focus on two constructions that allow preverbal subjects headed by a so‐called partitive article in French, that is, sentences with a stage‐level predicate and generic emphatic constructions. The aim is to explain why their counterparts were generally not accepted by speakers of Francoprovençal, an endangered and understudied
Tabea Ihsane
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Partitive Articles and Indefinites, Micro and Macrovariation
Studia Linguistica, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 1-12, April 2022., 2022 Abstract This introductory paper provides an overview of the main phenomena investigated in this Special Issue, such as the relation between the encoding of indefinites and the presence of genitive and definite markers, the relation between partitivity and indefiniteness and the distribution of these phenomena in minority, or “micro”, varieties – such ...
Francesco Pinzin, Cecilia Poletto
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Unexpected Partitive Articles in Francoprovençal*
Studia Linguistica, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 101-129, April 2022., 2022 Abstract This contribution seeks to add to our knowledge on ‘partitive articles’ (like the French element du in Je bois du vin, ‘I drink (some) wine’) in a highly endangered language spoken in France, Switzerland and Italy, namely Francoprovençal. Based on recent fieldwork data (2017) from the Aosta Valley and data from the ALAVAL atlas project, we ...
Elisabeth Stark, Jan Pavel Davatz
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Studia Linguistica, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 13-55, April 2022., 2022 Abstract This contribution focuses on indefinite arguments in object position. We address this topic from the point of view of the crosslinguistic variation within the Romance continuum, especially looking at Northern Italian Dialects (NIDs). The target is to describe the distribution of the different possible realizations of this kind of arguments in ...
Francesco Pinzin, Cecilia Poletto
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Non-Maximal Definites in Romance
Isogloss, 2022 Mainly based on data from Old Spanish and Modern Francoprovençal, this paper discusses a hitherto underresearched use of the Romance definite article that cannot straightforwardly be explained by recurring to any of the standard analyses of semantic ...
David Paul Gerards, Elisabeth Stark
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Les systèmes graphiques du francoprovençal : état des lieux et perspectives
Lengas, 2019 In the Francoprovençal domain there is not a unitary orthographic system. Several transcriptions have been proposed on a phonetic basis, and the principle of a grammatical and etymological spelling is generally not supported.An orthographic system that ...
Michela Russo, Dominique Stich
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Alcune considerazioni fonetiche sul francoprovenzale di Celle di San Vito (FG)
Géolinguistique, 2023 In this study, we discuss the oral data, collected through the ALiR questionnaire, of an 87‑year‑old person born and living in the village of Celle di San Vito (FG), a linguistic outpost together with neighbouring Faeto (FG), in which Francoprovençal is ...
Valentina De Iacovo
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Variation du genre des substantifs dans les dialectes gallo-romans. Étude exploratoire
Géolinguistique, 2023 This paper presents a corpus analysis of about 900 maps from the Linguistic Atlas of France (1902‑1910), with the aim of exploring the gender variation (masculine/feminine) of nouns between Gallo-Romance dialects (Oïl, Occitan, Francoprovençal) and ...
Guylaine Brun-Trigaud +2 more
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L’enjeu de l’identité linguistique dans l’île francoprovençale des Pouilles
Lengas, 2016 Dans cette étude nous tentons une réflexion autour de la dialectique entre aménagement linguistique (AL) et linguistique du développement social (LDS) par une focalisation sur l’île francoprovençale des Pouilles et tout particulièrement sur l’aspect de l’
Giovanni Agresti
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