Els parlars del Baix Ebre. Estudi geolingüístic

Identifier:  TDX:3093

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX3093

Authors:  Castellà Espuny, Carles Maria

Abstract:
'Els parlars del Baix Ebre. Estudi geolingüístic' is a research assignment meant to make a proper description of the Catalan dialect spoken in each of the towns and villages in the Baix Ebre County Council. Keeping in mind both dialectology and geolinguistics, all data were gathered by means of surveys to people from each community, whose given information has been properly used to analyse the colloquial speeches of the region. The final results have been organised and presented according to several different language levels, such as: phonetics, morphology, syntax and vocabulary. In addition to the proper description of the Baix Ebre dialect as a whole, the main objectives of our research were to settle the existing parallels and linguistic relationship among the different speeches in order to determine the different dialectal areas and, mainly, specifying its dialectal classification of this regional Catalan. The main features described in the four linguistic levels mentioned above, which are mirroring the region's inner variation, have been properly mapped by means of 1209 maps. All these maps have constituted the 'Atles Lingüístic del Baix Ebre' (ALBE), in which the linguistic variation in the Baix Ebre region has been recorded, taking into account its central location in the frame of the Western bloc of the Catalan language. To begin the assignment, an introductory preface, methodology and a proper geographical and historical description of the region have been presented. It also includes a section to mention the previous linguistic studies regarding the Baix Ebre region and an alphabetical list with all the words contained (lexical richness). Finally, you will find an outstanding annex with an ethnographic text from each town or village. These are proper samples of the colloquial speech of each of the twenty-three localities (municipalities and also villages) of the region.