A Law of Elision of unstressed Vowels in Western Romance Languages

Kotliarov, Ivan

doi:10.13109/glot.2009.85.14.77

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“…Similar conclusions had previously been reached by Ascoli (1890), Schmid (1956) and Bec (1970Bec ( -1971 who explicitly classified Gallo-Italic varieties as part of the Gallo-Romance branch, a classification that found further support in the work of Pellegrini (1992Pellegrini ( , 1995 and Kotliarov, (2009).…”

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Revisiting the classification of Gallo-Italic: a dialectometric approach

Tamburelli

Brasca

2017

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

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While Gallo-Italic varieties clearly belong to the Romance language family, their subgrouping as either Gallo-Romance or Italo-Romance has been the source of disagreement in the classificatory literature. While earlier analyses tended to classify Gallo-Italic as Gallo-Romance (notably Schmid, 1956; Bec, 1970-1971), later work has either argued for or tacitly assumed a classification of Gallo-Italic as part of the Italo-Romance branch, a view that is both different from as well as irreconcilable with the earlier Gallo-Romance classifications. In this paper we aim to contribute to the development of an empirically-based classification of Gallo-Italic through the use of dialectometry applied to atlas corpora, and specifically through the measurement of Levenshtein distance. Using three wordlists (Swadesh 100, Swadesh 200, Leipzig-Jakarta) and comparing twenty-six linguistic varieties across Italy and southeastern France, we show that Gallo-Italic is best classified as a third subgroup within the Gallo-Romance branch. Our results also clearly identify all the major bundles of isoglosses established through traditional dialectological methods and confirm Gallo-Italic as a relatively homogenous group distinct from Italo-Romance.

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Revisiting the classification of Gallo-Italic: a dialectometric approach

Tamburelli

Brasca

2017

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Debunking Rhaeto-Romance: Synchronic Evidence from Two Peripheral Northern Italian Dialects

Iubini-Hampton

2020

Modern Languages Open

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This paper explores two peripheral Northern Italian dialects (NIDs), namely Lamonat and Frignanese, with respect to their genealogical linguistic classification. The two NIDs exhibit morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic features that do not fall neatly into the Gallo-Italic sub-classification of Northern Italo-Romance, but resemble some of the core characteristics of the putative Rhaeto-Romance language family. This analysis of Lamonat and Frignanese reveals that their conservative traits more closely relate to Rhaeto-Romance. The synchronic evidence from the two peripheral NIDs hence supports the argument against the unity and autonomy of Rhaeto-Romance as a language family, whereby the linguistic traits that distinguish Rhaeto-Romance within Northern Italo-Romance consist of shared retentions rather than shared innovations, which were once common to virtually all NIDs. In this light, Rhaeto-Romance can be regarded as an array of conservative Gallo-Italic varieties. The paper concludes with a discussion of the geo-sociolinguistic properties of the two peripheral dialect areas under investigation that lead to a conservative linguistic behaviour within the Lamonat and Frignanese speech communities. Given the relatively similar historical and geopolitical background of these speech communities, we attempt the formulation of a geo-sociolinguistic model of linguistic innovation diffusion that captures the conservative behaviour of Lamonat and Frignanese. We propose that those dialect areas that, in Bartoli's (1945) geo-spatial linguistic typology, are both "lateral" and "isolated" deflect linguistic innovations. This proposal must be interpreted within a more general "gravity" and "wave" sociolinguistic model of diffusion of linguistic innovations, whereby "lateral" and "isolated" dialect areas give rise to a mechanism that we call "the pond rock effect" and that renders such dialect areas resistant to language change.

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A Law of Elision of unstressed Vowels in Western Romance Languages

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Revisiting the classification of Gallo-Italic: a dialectometric approach

Revisiting the classification of Gallo-Italic: a dialectometric approach

Debunking Rhaeto-Romance: Synchronic Evidence from Two Peripheral Northern Italian Dialects

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