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A Comparison of Northern Romance and Occitan ‘Subject’ Clitic Systems
Romance languages have complement clitic pronouns that replace the arguments of a verb. Only a sub-area of Romance, extending from France to Northern Italy, also has subject clitics connected to the syntactic subject of an inflected verb. Even though the
Benincà, Paola
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This paper provides an overview of the varieties of Cisalpine Occitan. From a sociolinguistic perspective, these varieties may be regarded as both second-degree and endangered languages, though they have been involved into promotion policies for several
Matteo Rivoira
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Une collecte de complaintes criminelles en Occitanie
This article presents the results of a field survey carried out in the Occitan region in France. The research has been focused on the work of folk song writers.
Xavier Vidal
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OcOr is a corpus of Occitan oral narratives. This corpus is an output of the project EXPRESSIONarration, financed by a Marie Sklodovska Curie Fellowship (2016-2018, n°655034). It includes three sub-corpora, constituted as follows: • OOT (Occitan, oral,
Marianne Vergez-Couret +3 more
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Abstract Particles sinking from the surface to the deep ocean play a key role in the biological carbon pump, whose efficiency depends partly on sinking velocities. Over the last decade, in situ imaging has enabled critical advances in our understanding of particle dynamics in the ocean.
Manon Laget +5 more
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Temporal Patterning and “Degrees of Orality” in Occitan and French Oral Narrative
International audienceThis article explores tense usage and tense-switching in the temporal structuring of Occitan and French oral narratives, drawing on theoretical frameworks in linguistics and sociolinguistics, as well as perspectives from ...
Carruthers, Janice +1 more
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How can Occitan teachers train themselves to teach the history of the Occitan-speaking area? There are no specifically dedicated school manuals, and works of popularization are scarce.
Yan Lespoux
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The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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L’emplec dels pronoms subjèctes e la lenga d’Augièr Galhard
In the form of Occitan used by Augièr Galhard (1533 ?-1595 ?) subject pronouns occur with a high degree of frequency. Medieval Occitan however can accurately be classified as null subject language and the same is true for more recent forms of the ...
Patric Sauzet
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