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Over the last two decades there has been a growth of quantitative studies of linguistic variation, aimed at overcoming the potential arbitrariness of dialectal divisions based on qualitative criteria. However, dialect measuring methods have also proved incomplete, which has endangered [...]

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First, this paper describes the relations between stratification and social convencionalization in general, it also presents a view of society as a very appropiate ground for socilectal research. Second, after reviewing specific problems of the research mentioned above in the Catalan [...]

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This paper deals with a number of geosynonyms within grapes and wine terminology in Catalan; twenty-nine names of vines and grapes (technically called «ampelonyms») are analyzed: «boval, garnatxa, giró, pansal, palop, monastrell, picapoll or moscatell», amongst others. The author, [...]

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The main purpose of this paper is to study the terminological wealth surrounding the sea urchin, an animal which is little known and has little interest as a dish, especially outside the world of seamen. This situation, which has prevailed until a few decades ago, has led to the present [...]

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The work of Joaquim Martí i Gadea, born in Alcoi, and mainly known as a folklorist as well as the founder of Valencian Dialectology, has plenty to offer to the modern lexicographer.

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Abstract: An analysis of dialectal characteristics of this text allows the author to put forth the hypotesis of the existence of common arabisms in the most arabized territories while they ara almost inexistent in teh rest of the Catalonian linguistic dominion.

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Abstract: During the Middle Ages, Latin was taught for beginners in the Romance language in Spain, as well as in other European regions. A number of explanations in the vernacular were incorporated into Latin texts. An example of this tradition is the so-called grammaticae proverbiandi. [...]

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Several attempts to describe and explain lexical regularities and irregulaties have been made in morphology and semantics. Dialectology and historical grammar have studied phenomena of lexical alternation and change. Yet, applied linguistics has not shown the intrinsic variation of [...]

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One of the Aragonese areas where there is better evidence of Catalan-Aragonese dialect transition is la Llitera, an area in the province of Osca where Catalan and Aragonese border varieties remain alive, alongside the North-Western varieties proper. In order to show the internal geovariation [...]