Francoprovençal in contact with Walser German

• Dal Negro, Silvia ^[1] ; Angster, Marco ^[2]
  1. [1] Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

     Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

     Bolzano, Italia

     
  2. [2] University of Zadar

     University of Zadar

     Croacia

     
• Localización: International journal of the sociology of language, ISSN 0165-2516, Nº. 249, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Francoprovençal: documenting contact varieties, Issue Editors: Jonathan Kasstan and Naomi Nagy), págs. 135-150
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article focuses on Francoprovençal (FP) from the perspective of language contact, specifically the reciprocal effects between FP and two dialects of German (Alemannic) spoken in the Aosta region and belonging to the severely endangered Walser minority group located in Northwestern Italy. On the basis of lexical evidence we describe a complex dynamics of language contact among communities embedded in one another. We found bidirectional exchanges between FP and one Walser variety, but much less so with the other. As a result, lexical distance revealed a pattern of contact, isolation and asymmetries that contrasts with geographical distance or more general relations of sociolinguistic dominance.