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Linguistic geography of Breton and sociocultural motivations
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Denis Costaouec
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March 13, 2012
Abstract
In this paper I discuss various issues directly related to the study of Breton dialects, and to the practice of linguistic geography. Some of the questions that will be considered are: Where does the border pass between two contiguous dialectal areas? How can the geographical distribution of the varieties of a language be explained? What factors (social, economic, cultural, religious, political, etc) can be correlated with this geographic distribution?
Published Online: 2012-03-13
Published in Print: 2012-03
© by Akademie Verlag, Villejuif, Germany
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Keywords for this article
Linguistic geography;
dialectometry;
dialectal borders;
sociocultural motivations;
Breton
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