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‘Je suis corse, un homme de village’: Towards a Study of Contemporary Corsican Nationalism (1959–98)

History, Volume 108, Issue 383, Page 556-580, December 2023., 2023
Abstract This article reconstructs the genesis and developments of contemporary Corsican nationalism between 1959 to 1998, from the emergence of regionalism to the most dramatic phase of the resurgence of violence represented by the murder of Prefect Claude Érignac.
DEBORAH PACI
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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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A materialist take on minoritization, emancipation, and language revitalization: Occitan sociolinguistics since the 1970s

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 327-344, September 2023., 2023
Abstract This paper introduces and discusses Occitan sociolinguistics as it evolved from the 1970s onward as a theory of language contact as conflict. It was developed in conjunction with its Catalan counterpart and as a reaction to Joshua Fishman's allocational model of diglossia, and came as a response to conditions of swift social and linguistic ...
James Costa
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Home‐rule versus non‐territorial autonomy? Western European national movements and their views on the minority question, 1919–1939

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 482-497, April 2023., 2023
Abstract The leading elites of the ethnonationalist movements that developed in the aftermath of World War I in Western Europe usually refused to see their nations and territories as ‘national minorities’. In their view, they were stateless nations or nationalities.
Xosé M. Núñez Seixas
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Contact‐Induced Changes in Morphosyntax: An Introduction

, 2023
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 331-335, November 2023.
Michele Bianconi, Robin Meyer
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The Occitan Latin Idea Between Tradition and Modernity, 1870s-1880s [PDF]

This article discusses the dual facets of Latinity—traditionalism and modernity—within the Occitan context in the late nineteenth century. It investigates how cultural Occitanism, a movement dedicated to the promotion of the Occitan language and ...
Zantedeschi, F.
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Cavalcanti and the "sound" of the " bewildered quilts":another Italian "salut"?

, 2014
In the salutz d’amor, the materiality of the components of an actual letter (the signature, paper, seal, ink) are given the function of signifying the physicality of the sender.
De Ventura, Paolo
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
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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The impact of English on local languages: The case of Catalan universities

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 309-322, June 2026.
Abstract This article deals with the somehow complex equilibrium of languages used in Catalonia, with a particular analysis of the role of English vis‐a‐vis the national language (Spanish) and the regional official language (Catalan). A discussion of the supremacy of standard languages over local ones in modern history, followed by an account of the ...
Enric Llurda
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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 168-199, March 2026.
Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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