The Francoprovençal minority languages of Faeto and Celle di San Vito (Puglia, Italy) represent an interesting socio-linguistic space for the study of language variation in a context of languages in contact which includes an endangered language. Threatened with extinction, Francoprovençal is in contact—in both countries—with Italian and several central and southern dialects belonging to the Italo-Romance linguistic group. This article deals with a micro-variational analysis of verbal negative forms in the languages spoken in Faeto and Celle. These two varieties of Francoprovençal show only one negative marker, the adverb pa (pas). However, the presence of other negative elements in the sentence (either adverbial or nominal) causes some variability, as the occurrence of the negative particle is optional. The analysis is based on three different typologies of Francoprovençal utterances: the written ones, the ones elicited by translation from Italian, and the semi-spontaneous spoken ones. The analyzed syntactic-semantic configuration involves a range of potential variability of the Gallo-Romance system and, at the same time, it represents a resistance of the language system of Faeto and Celle to the assimilation pressure of other languages in contact. This leads us to reflect on the nature and the reasons of the variability that occurs in a nonstandardized and endangered language.

Langues en contact, langues en danger : une étude de cas autour de la négation verbale et autres mots-N en francoprovençal des Pouilles / Puolato, Daniela. - In: SHS WEB OF CONFERENCES. - ISSN 2261-2424. - 27:(2016), pp. 1-16. (Intervento presentato al convegno 5e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française tenutosi a Tours nel 4-8 luglio 2016) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20162713006].

Langues en contact, langues en danger : une étude de cas autour de la négation verbale et autres mots-N en francoprovençal des Pouilles

PUOLATO, DANIELA
2016

Abstract

The Francoprovençal minority languages of Faeto and Celle di San Vito (Puglia, Italy) represent an interesting socio-linguistic space for the study of language variation in a context of languages in contact which includes an endangered language. Threatened with extinction, Francoprovençal is in contact—in both countries—with Italian and several central and southern dialects belonging to the Italo-Romance linguistic group. This article deals with a micro-variational analysis of verbal negative forms in the languages spoken in Faeto and Celle. These two varieties of Francoprovençal show only one negative marker, the adverb pa (pas). However, the presence of other negative elements in the sentence (either adverbial or nominal) causes some variability, as the occurrence of the negative particle is optional. The analysis is based on three different typologies of Francoprovençal utterances: the written ones, the ones elicited by translation from Italian, and the semi-spontaneous spoken ones. The analyzed syntactic-semantic configuration involves a range of potential variability of the Gallo-Romance system and, at the same time, it represents a resistance of the language system of Faeto and Celle to the assimilation pressure of other languages in contact. This leads us to reflect on the nature and the reasons of the variability that occurs in a nonstandardized and endangered language.
2016
Langues en contact, langues en danger : une étude de cas autour de la négation verbale et autres mots-N en francoprovençal des Pouilles / Puolato, Daniela. - In: SHS WEB OF CONFERENCES. - ISSN 2261-2424. - 27:(2016), pp. 1-16. (Intervento presentato al convegno 5e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française tenutosi a Tours nel 4-8 luglio 2016) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20162713006].
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