Intermediate Language Varieties by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2020-06-01T11:14:34+00:00

2.Dialect and standard in Italo-Romance: Some general issues

One of the key elements of the sociolinguistic situation characterising Italy is the coexistence of Italian and Italo-Romance dialects, the latter being widespread throughout the peninsula (see Figure 1).1 Italo-Romance dialects are not dialects of Italian, as they do not result from the geographic differentiation of Italian. Indeed, they derive from the Italo-Romance vernaculars spoken in the Middle Ages. They are coeval with the Italo-Romance vernacular from which standard Italian developed, i.e. fourteenth-century Florentine, and, therefore, predate the spread of Italian across the country. Italo-Romance dialects are hence ‘primary dialects’, to use Coseriu’s (1980) terminology.

Figure 1.Italo-Romance dialects and places mentioned in the text

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