Abstract
The goal of this paper is to offer an argument for the Sociotopographic Model and its extension to dialectal data. It is shown that Italian and one of its dialects, Aquilan, seem to differ with respect to which reference systems their prepositions can describe. Aquilan includes an absolute and an elevational reference system; Italian only includes an absolute system. It is proposed that this difference is strongly correlated to Aquilan being a dialect spoken in a mountainous valley, and therefore reflecting the “lay of the land” in its spatial lexicon. The paper offers an experimental study involving two groups of informants (group 1, age >70.0 years, N = 13; group 2, age <40.0 years, N = 10). It is shown that both groups can use the elevational system in Aquilan, but generational differences are attested. Some conclusions regarding connections between Sociotopography and Dialectology are offered.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Diversity in representing space within and between language communities
- A quantitative approach to sociotopography in Austronesian languages
- Directionals, topography, and cultural construals of landscape in Lamaholot
- A socially anchored approach to spatial language in Kalaallisut
- River-based and egocentric spatial orientation in Yine
- Geocentric directional systems in Australia: a typology
- The irrelevance of scale and fixedness in landscape terms in two Australian languages
- Changes in spatial frames of reference use in Iwaidja in different intergenerational contexts
- Cross-generational differences in linguistic and cognitive spatial frames of reference in Negev Arabic
- Sociotopography meets Dialectology: the case of Aquilan
- Conflation of spatial reference frames in deaf community sign languages
- Linguistic spatial reference systems across domains: How people talk about space in sailing, dancing, and other specialist areas
- The influence of language, culture, and environment on the use of spatial referencing in a multilingual context: Taiwan as a test case
- Reference frames in language and cognition: cross-population mismatches
- From the field into the lab: causal approaches to the evolution of spatial language
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Diversity in representing space within and between language communities
- A quantitative approach to sociotopography in Austronesian languages
- Directionals, topography, and cultural construals of landscape in Lamaholot
- A socially anchored approach to spatial language in Kalaallisut
- River-based and egocentric spatial orientation in Yine
- Geocentric directional systems in Australia: a typology
- The irrelevance of scale and fixedness in landscape terms in two Australian languages
- Changes in spatial frames of reference use in Iwaidja in different intergenerational contexts
- Cross-generational differences in linguistic and cognitive spatial frames of reference in Negev Arabic
- Sociotopography meets Dialectology: the case of Aquilan
- Conflation of spatial reference frames in deaf community sign languages
- Linguistic spatial reference systems across domains: How people talk about space in sailing, dancing, and other specialist areas
- The influence of language, culture, and environment on the use of spatial referencing in a multilingual context: Taiwan as a test case
- Reference frames in language and cognition: cross-population mismatches
- From the field into the lab: causal approaches to the evolution of spatial language