A Century of Research in Franco-Provençal and Poitevin
Kathryn Klingebiel
Summary Within the Gallo-Romance domain, Franco-Provençal and its western correlate Poitevin have been variously labeled ‘independent languages’, ‘dialects of French’, or oc ’. At least one attempt has made to link these two lateral entities against both north south. A historical survey conflicting claims encompasses non-partisan methodologies such as dialect geography linguistic atlases well theoretical developments affecting Romance studies during last hundred years. Late 19th century research had not yet resolved antinomies between speech script study grammar. Recent into time direction Romanization, significantly clarifying bi-(or tri-)partitioning Gaul, complemented increasingly sophisticated work in all fields. Yet frequent overemphasis on segmentation, coupled with a failure distinguish shared fate from ‘language’ general acception, cannot be allowed obscure fact that FP belong Gallo-Romance; successful investigation either must continue mesh grammar, lexis, scripta, geohistory.
Historiographia Linguistica