1. Surname regions and dialectal variation in the Asturian linguistic space
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María José Ginzo-Villamayor, Xulio Sousa, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Estatística, Análise Matemática e Optimización, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Filoloxía Galega, and Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Instituto da Lingua Galega (ILG)
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0301 basic medicine ,Register (sociolinguistics) ,Dialectology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Population ,Distribution (economics) ,030105 genetics & heredity ,Space (commercial competition) ,03 medical and health sciences ,Onomastics ,Surname regions ,education ,media_common ,education.field_of_study ,Asturian ,business.industry ,Constitution ,Dialectal areas ,Linguistics ,030104 developmental biology ,Variation (linguistics) ,Geography ,Ibero-Romance languages ,business - Abstract
Studies on the correlations between spatial distribution of linguistic varieties and genetic structure of populations began by dealing with geographic spaces and extensive linguistic families. In the last two decades, researchers with this type of interdisciplinary approach have also begun to study more reduced linguistic and population domains. This paper examines geolinguistic and onomastic information in a linguistic and administrative space of a limited extension of the Principality of Asturias. The information on the surnames of this region, taken from the inhabitants’ register, is used to identify surname regions and check correlations with dialect areas described in this space. The results obtained in this research show many similarities in the distribution of surname regions with dialect areas recognized by traditional dialectology studies. The conclusions of the study present the results obtained together with some of the explanatory proposals on the historical constitution of the linguistic diversity of this area This work was supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad [FFI2015-65208-P and MTM2016-76969-P], European Regional Development Fund (multiannual financial framework 2014-2020]) and the Xunta de Galicia (TecAnDali research network, ED341DR2016/011) SI
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- 2020
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