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This paper examines the syntax of perfective adjectives in Catalan. These adjectives coexist with participles created from the same root, typically manifesting a complementary distribution, e.g., net - netejat (‘clean - cleaned’). The study shows that perfective adjectives can be divided into two groups in Catalan: purely resultative adjectives, which always express a result, and resultative/I-level adjectives, which can express a result but may also convey a non-resultative meaning, namely the expression of an individual-level predicate. This exploration prompts a revision of stage-level adjectives that shows that these adjectives are always resultative in Catalan. A formal proposal is presented to analyse the syntax of perfective adjectives, in alignment with the discerned contrasts between stage-level and individual-level predicates. Furthermore, the analysis also delves into the distinction between resultative adjectives and resultative participles, confirming the existence of target and resultant states in Catalan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Valencian Country, the dichotomous conception of identity arising from a language conflict between Catalan and Spanish polarised language attitudes concerning the place of the Valencian variety within Catalan. This article questions the traditionally assumed parallel distribution of interlinguistic attitudes, interdialectal attitudes and sociopolitical profiles in the Valencian context through an empirical analysis that suggests that an additional Valencian-specific construct rooted in pluricentric principles is involved in shaping and grouping attitudes, besides the binary ‘Catalan versus Spanish’ opposition. A weighted sample of 1090 Valencian residents responded to a questionnaire eliciting interlinguistic attitudes and interdialectal attitudes separately. Exploratory factor analysis revealed the expected tripartite structure of attitudes in the former (cognitive, affective and conative components) but not in the latter, where variables were grouped depending on their cohesive or assimilative approach. Subsequent correlation analyses confirmed our hypothesis that interlinguistic and interdialectal attitudes could not be associated with identically opposing sociolinguistic profiles, as only one out of five attitude indicators still conformed to the traditional dichotomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fractocompounding is a word-formation process that has generated different unknowns and, generally, has been studied from affixation or from neoclassical compounding. Therefore, this work consists of an approach to the fractoconstituents and the constructions that they generate from a new perspective. Thus, the main objective is to analyze the properties of these units and to define what is fractocompounding as a word-formation process. Thus, the paper offers a bibliographical review of different theoretical contributions and an empirical study based on a corpus of Catalan language units. In addition, the paper emphasizes the borderline character of fractoconstituents, which are located between affixes and cultured elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El trabajo ofrece por primera vez un Repertorio temático-cronológico de pliegos poéticos en catalán de los siglos XV y XVI. El corpus, de 128 ítems, incluye tanto pliegos preservados hasta nuestros días como aquellos actualmente desconocidos y de los que tenemos noticia por los catálogos de Hernando Colón y por otros inventarios de la época. La ordenación de los registros atiende a criterios temáticos y cronológicos. Cada entrada incluye una descripción básica del pliego, localización de ejemplares y referencias bibliográficas esenciales. Cuando es posible, se ofrece el enlace a su digitalización pública o su referencia facsimilar.

La Colección de vocablos y modismos incorrectos y viciosos usados por los catalanes cuando hablan el castellano, de Joaquín Casanovas y Ferrán, que contó con dos ediciones (1883 y 1884), se incluye en los tratados de corrección y su objetivo fue dar a conocer los errores, fruto de la interferencia lingüística, que se producían, a finales del siglo XIX, en boca de un catalanohablante cuando este utilizaba el castellano. A pesar del interés que el conjunto de la obra despierta desde un punto de vista lingüístico, puesto que se constatan ciertos aspectos de pronunciación e incluso dialectalismos de la época, este trabajo se centra en el estudio de los términos marcados como «modismos», «locuciones», «frases» y «catalanismos». A través de su análisis se puede apreciar a qué estructuras afectaba, a finales del siglo XIX, el proceso de castellanización del catalán.

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BackgroundAimsMethods and procedureResultsConclusionsDescription tasks are used to evaluate and investigate the production abilities of people with language impairments such as aphasia.The goal of the present study is to investigate the production abilities of Catalan-speaking individuals with aphasia (IWA), as well as a smaller sample of individuals with cognitive impairment (IWCI), in comparison with those of healthy controls. A second goal is to evaluate whether the scoring system of the Catalan version of the CAT (CAT-CAT) is helpful to discriminate different patterns of language impairment.In the study, 109 control subjects, 20 IWA and 4 IWCI were asked to orally describe a picture from the CAT-CAT. The scoring method consisted in a closed-rating system that evaluates productivity, discourse efficiency, fluency, grammatical complexity and grammaticality.The results show that the overall scores of the control subjects were significantly higher than those of the experimental groups; the difference between the two experimental groups was not significant. Yet, the group of IWA showed greater intersubject variability than the group of IWCI. Also, the IWA were consistently worse in fluency, grammaticality and grammatical complexity than the IWCI, which indicated a different pattern of performance between the two groups.Our findings therefore show that the oral picture description of the CAT-CAT is sensitive to the language impairment of subjects with aphasia and cognitive impairment. Moreover, the rating system put forward allows us to uncover different patterns of language impairment, since it includes variables to evaluate separately content and discourse efficiency on the one hand, and grammatical features on the other hand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present research examines the linguistic landscape (LL) of two demographically distinct neighborhoods in Barcelona: Vila de Gràcia and El Barri Gòtic. The aim of this study is to analyze how language choice among Catalan, Castilian, and English indexes collective and individual aspects of identity in written messages on public walls. All transgressive artifacts in both communities were documented, and the language(s) and theme of each message were systematically coded. A qualitative content analysis complemented this quantitative coding scheme. While the Catalan-dominant Vila de Gràcia had a significantly higher representation of Catalan in its LL, the thematic repertoire of Catalan artifacts between the two neighborhoods was largely similar. Castilian and English artifacts showed thematic representation patterns that were distinct from Catalan, but parallel to each other. Language-theme relationships in the data indicate that Catalan is more prevalent in messages pertaining to society or community, whereas Castilian and English are preferred for intimate themes of a sentimental or rebellious nature. The LL data shed light on the evolution of language ideologies in the tense socio-political climate of Barcelona in the years following Catalonia's controversial 2017 independence referendum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This meta-research focuses on articles published in Catalan by scientific journals based in the territories where that language is used (12) that use blind peer evaluation systems and are indexed in bibliographic reference databases. A mixed methodology has been used (scoping review and management questionnaires), analyzing the entire production of these publications, just over 2,500 articles, in the period 2011-2023, to first determine the language used. Regarding the texts published in Catalan (417), the methodology used in each article was analyzed to determine the most common techniques; also its evolution over the years. It concludes by pointing out certain shortcomings, both in specific topics and in lines of research, and point some proposals for the future. Also the consequences generated by the non-use of vernacular languages in the publication of scientific articles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we revisit the phenomenon of Negative Concord focusing on the Strict vs. Non-Strict divide. With Catalan as a case in point, we show that Negative Concord Items (NCIs) are not negative quantifiers (NQs) or polarity items (PIs) but inherently negative indefinites by virtue of carrying a negative feature [neg] that contributes a negative semantics to the proposition and is subject to a syntax–phonology constraint that forces it to overtly c-command Tense in compliance with Jespersen's NegFirst principle. We argue that to satisfy such constraint, [neg] can disembody from the NCI via overt Move F(eature) to adjoin at a pre-Infl(ection) position and be Spelled-Out homophonous to the negative marker. The Strict vs. Non-Strict contrast follows from whether [neg] always moves independently from the rest of the NCI via Move F (Strict Negative Concord) or predates, whenever possible, on another movement of the NCI that places [neg] in the required pre-Infl position (Non-Strict Negative Concord) thus not having to disembody. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cameron et al. (2010) and Fruehwald & Gorman (2011) present the pattern of homorganic consonant cluster reduction in Catalan as a challenge to Baković’s (2005) theory of antigemination, which predicts that any feature ignored in the determination of consonant identity for the purposes of antigemination in a given language must independently assimilate in that language. I argue that the pattern in Catalan is not a counterexample to this prediction if the reduction process is analyzed as coalescence, following Wheeler (2005), rather than as deletion.

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Ultrasound and center of gravity frequency data for the sequences /ʃ#s/ and /s#ʃ/ produced by Central Catalan speakers reveal that the former sequence is implemented through continuous articulatory and spectral trajectories which, depending on speaker, may be: intermediate between /ʃ/ and /s/ all throughout, thus supporting a dynamic blending mechanism; /ʃ/-like at onset and intermediate between the two fricatives at offset, which is indicative of C1-to-C2 carryover coarticulation. The sequence /s#ʃ/, on the other hand, undergoes regressive assimilation into [ʃ(ʃ)] according to the acoustic signal but less clearly so in the light of the articulatory data. This discrepancy appears to be due to the fact that, while C1=/s/ assimilates indeed to C2=/ʃ/ at constriction location, coarticulation-induced changes in tongue body configuration behind the primary articulator may occur as long as they do not jeopardize the front-cavity dependent frequency characteristics of the [ʃ] frication noise. Differences in articulatory complexity between /ʃ#s/ and /s#ʃ/ appear to result from the production mechanisms involved, i.e., tongue dorsum raising behind the /s/ constriction for /s#ʃ/ and tongue body repositioning for /ʃ#s/. In agreement with this interpretation, /ʃ#s/ but not /s#ʃ/ turned out to be longer than /s#s/ and /ʃ#ʃ/. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study delves into the syntactic parsing abilities of children and infants exposed to Catalan as their first language. Focusing first on ages 3 to 6, we conducted two sentence-picture matching tasks. In experiment 1, 3 to 4-year-old children failed in identifying singular third-person subjects within null-subject sentences, although they performed above chance in all other scenarios, including plural third-person subjects and sentences with overt full DP subjects. This is reminiscent of the results of Pérez-Leroux for Spanish. In experiment 2, with the same design but involving numeral distractors, children's performance was above chance level across all conditions from age 3 to 4. Then, in experiment 3, we moved to a younger age range with the help of eye-tracking techniques. The findings revealed that infants at 22 months had the ability to parse subject–verb agreement in sentences with third-person null subjects, and at 19 months there was evidence of parsing for third-person plural null subjects. These findings are inconsistent with the perception of children grappling with syntactic agreement computation. We argue that instances of underperformance in subject–verb agreement parsing identified in the literature often stem from task-related and pragmatic issues rather than core syntactic delay. If so, the putative asymmetry between early production of verbal inflection and late comprehension disappears; rather, the results suggest early establishment of matching operations and mastery of language-specific agreement properties before production starts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a comprehensive description of auxiliary selection in Catalan. Specifically, after explaining how the phenomenon worked in Old Catalan, we show what are the factors (such as the event/argument structure or the grammatical person, among others) that determine the use of BE and HAVE in those Catalan varieties that, although with some innovations, retain this distinction: (i) Algherese Catalan, (ii) Northern Catalan and some varieties of Central Catalan, (iii) Ribagorçan Catalan, and (iv) Balearic Catalan. Likewise, we show a series of theoretical considerations that we believe are relevant for the analysis of the patterns of variation found in Catalan and, by extension, in Romance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores variation in strategies for expressing evidentiality in two Romance languages, Catalan and Spanish, analysing differences in the knowledge and use of the strategies shown by bilingual speakers of these two languages in contact. In our study, 96 bilingual speakers from the Balearic Islands, with different degrees of Catalan/ Spanish language dominance, performed two tasks: (a) choosing between future and two other ways of expressing conjecture in a set of utterances; and (b) judging the acceptability of a set of utterances that involve using the future tense for expressing conjecture (with different aspectual configurations that impact on grammaticality). The bilingual participants’ responses were compared with those of a group of 32 monolingual Spanish speakers. We examine the correlations between the participants’ linguistic profile (including factors like the frequency of use of each language and their language attitudes) and their acceptability judgements in each language. Group and individual analyses inform on possible effects of the bilingual speakers’ language experiences and the types of linguistic competence that they develop, as well as on their preferences and choices when using the two languages and when interpreting utterances. Finally, our results are related to the possible convergence of the structures in the two languages. We conclude that the semantics of the future tense, for our bilingual speakers, is the same in Catalan as in Spanish. Regarding the use of the future to express conjecture, Majorcan Spanish is similar to Catalan and diverges from the tendencies observed in most varieties of Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study reports tongue configuration data recorded with ultrasound for two sets of consonant sequences uttered by five native Catalan speakers. Articulatory data for the onset cluster pairs [kl]-[ɣl] and [kɾ]-[ɣɾ], and also for [l#k]-[l#ɣ] and [r#k]-[r#ɣ], analyzed in the first part of the investigation revealed that, as a general rule, the (shorter) velar approximant is less constricted than the (longer) voiceless velar stop at the velar and palatal zones while exhibiting a more retracted tongue body at the pharynx. These manner of articulation-dependent differences may extend into the preceding liquid. Data for [k#l]-[kl] and [k#r]-[kɾ] dealt with in the second part of the study show that the velar is articulated with more tongue body retraction for [k#l] vs. [kl] and for [k#r] vs. [kɾ], and with a higher tongue dorsum for [k#l] vs. [kl] and the reverse for [k#r] vs. [kɾ]. Therefore, clusters are produced with a more extreme lingual configuration across a word boundary than in syllable-onset position, which at least in part may be predicted by segmental factors for the [k#r]-[kɾ] pair. These articulatory data are compared with duration data for all sequence pairs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Borrowing can be facilitated or inhibited by linguistic constraints in language contact situations. This paper examines one such constraint: the effects of discoursivization on the usage of Spanish discourse connectives in Balearic Catalan. Using a variationist sociolinguistic analysis of conversational corpus data, this study seeks to determine the role of discourse among the social and linguistic factors that govern this contact phenomenon. The statistical findings indicate that the Spanish and Catalan discourse connectives have undergone and continue to undergo a process of discoursivization. However, this movement towards discourse does not seem to have an effect on their usage, and instead social factors are the most significant determinants affecting the use of Spanish discourse connectives in contemporary Balearic Catalan. Nonetheless, it appears that these Spanish loanwords may be falling out of use among younger speakers as a result of linguistic normalization efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Around 1396, Francesc Eiximenis, a main figure of Franciscanism in the Crown of Aragon during the 14th and 15th centuries, wrote the Llibre de les dones. Originally addressed to the Countess of Prades and composed of 396 chapters, this didactic, moral and spiritual catalan treatise appears to be the first treatise on women in the Iberian Peninsula. In the first half of the 15th century, an anonymous Castilian translation appeared, entitled Libro de las donas. Today, there are ten Castilian witnesses. This work proposes the first critical edition of the Castilian text based on a manuscript (MS 10156, National Library of Spain) selected according to various criteria. For this purpose, we have examined each of the Castilian copies in comparison with the Catalan witnesses from codicological, ecdotic and linguistic perspectives. What textual and linguistic differences can be observed, first, between the Catalan and Castilian texts, and then, between the Castilian manuscripts? The stemma codicum that we have presented provides an account of the textual filiation of the Castilian translation during the fifteenth century and its provenance from the Llibre de les dones. Finally, the treatise circulated widely throughout the Iberian Peninsula and beyond the Pyrenees, in royal collections, libraries pertaining to the nobility, as well as monasteries and convents. Thus, this study considers the context in which the Castilian translation was produced, as well as the issues of distribution, circulation and reception in the different spheres previously mentioned.

This paper presents VeLeCa, a new resource on Catalan verbal inflection containing the phonological form of 174,200 word forms from 3,484 lexemes and their respective lexical and morphosyntactic values and frequencies. We describe the challenges and procedure we followed in the compilation and phonemization of this resource, and conduct a computational analysis of the Paradigm Cell Filling Problem (i.e. morphological predictive complexity) in the system to contrast it with those from related Romance languages.

This paper provides a fine-grained characterization of two confirmational tags in Catalan, oi? and eh?, starting with the novel claim that, despite appearances, they do not have the same distribution or meaning. While oi? is a rather unconstrained confirmational, eh? is proved to be sensitive to whether the main predicate of the sentence anchor p is objective or subjective. We ultimately propose that confirmational questions with oi? make a request for confirmation of the truth of the sentence anchor, whereas a confirmational with eh? is a request for the commitment of the addressee to the truth of the sentence anchor. Two consequences emerge from our analysis: oi? should be preferred when factual truths instead of opinions are conveyed, while eh? should be preferred in contexts where the speaker is not necessarily interested in finding out the truth of p. These predictions are tested in three experimental studies, which provide empirical support for the theoretical proposal regarding the different pragmatic contribution of both tags.

This paper presents data that can help determine whether factors such as gender or age can become significant in authorship analysis through X in Catalan. Considering the principles of forensic linguistics (in particular, authorship analysis and idiolectal style), 500 publications have been analyzed from a stylistic point of view, focusing on three discursive aspects: specific features of X, pragmatic variables and stylistic variables. Contrary to what some authors have found for English X users (Cicres, 2015), the paper shows that, in Catalan, emoticons, exclamations or letter multiplication are not distinctive features for gender or age. However, elements such as the concatenation of hashtags, the use of links, the intensification of first-person subject pronouns, the use of capital letters or the use suspension points can be meaningful for age ¾but not for gender. This paper thus constitutes a first step towards finding truly distinctive elements in the use of X in Catalan, even though more studies, with larger corpora, need to be done to confirm these tendencies.

This article presents a brief overview of the official language certifications available for seven Romance minority languages which are spoken in Europe: Aragonese, Asturian, Catalan, and Galician (primarily spoken on the Iberian peninsula), Corsican and Occitan (spoken in France), and Romansh (spoken in Switzerland). As a component of a broader project which has previously examined official credentials for selected Celtic and Slavic languages, the study first outlines general information about the Romance language family and the minority and minoritised languages which are members of it, before giving a short overview of language certifications as well as the study’s methodology and research questions. Subsequently, in adopting a similar approach to the previous analyses, each of the seven linguistic case studies is presented with the objective of obtaining core information about the types, levels, awarding institutions, and wider recognition relating to the certifications concerned. These findings are then discussed, after which some conclusions and additional research possibilities are offered.

Determining the linguistic nature of light verbs – whether they are lexical or grammatical units – is still an open question. Light verbs are often characterised as delexicalized. Thus, grammaticalization would be the process by which a lexical verb (lexical unit) assumes the value of a light verb (grammatical unit). However, it has also been argued that light verbs are just regular verbs, albeit ones with little semantic specification. If they are, there can be no grammaticalization, at least in principle. Nevertheless, even if light verbs are considered lexical verbs, the way they evolve invite to relate them to grammaticalization processes. In this paper I contribute to the debate by providing evidence on the historical evolution of the Catalan verb agafar ‘to take, to catch, to pick, to get’. The conclusion is not firm, but suggests that the description of light verbs can benefit from the framework of grammaticalization.

The aim of the present research is to analyze the linguistic landscape (LL) and Catalan heraldic imagery of the 2022 Diada, Catalonia’s National Day. The theme and language(s) of all Diada signage were systematically coded, along with other semiotic elements such as colors and heraldic emblems. A qualitative content analysis complemented this quantitative coding scheme and reveals that Independence was the dominant theme in signage, followed by Betrayal, Solidarity, and Catalan Cultural Identity. The targets of Betrayal messages were pro-independence Catalan politicians who, in the eyes of those partial to secession, have failed to make good on their promises in the five years following the contentious Catalan independence referendum. The quantitative analysis points to an overwhelming preference for the pro-independence estelada over the less politically-charged senyera. Heraldry-theme relationships show the senyera to be most represented in signage pertaining to Catalan Cultural Identity. This adumbrates that it is still an appropriate symbol for claiming ethnocultural group membership, though La Diada semiotics overall emphasized political rather than cultural statements. The LL and heraldic data from the 2022 Diada shed light on the evolution of secessionist sentiment and the role of traditional Catalan symbols in the tense socio-political climate of post-referendum Catalonia.

We show that Lusztig's canonical basis for the degree two part of the Grassmannian coordinate ring is given by \({\rm SL}_k\) web diagrams. Equivalently, we show that every \({\rm SL}_2\) web immanant of a plabic graph for \({\rm Gr}(k,n)\) is an \({\rm SL}_k\) web invariant.Mathematics Subject Classifications: 05E10, 14M15, 20C30Keywords: Grassmannians, webs, canonical basis, Catalan

This study examines whether Differential Object Marking (DOM) realization and word order in relative clauses (RCs) in Spanish affect processing and interpretation among monolinguals and highly proficient Catalan–Spanish bilinguals. RCs are parallel in Catalan and Spanish, but DOM is much more restricted in Catalan than in Spanish, and, interestingly, the distinction between subject and object RCs relies mainly on the presence/absence of DOM. To examine DOM optionality, we concentrate on the top portion of the animacy scale and test the human/non-human contrast. Exploring these two populations allows us to test whether they resort to different strategies for the following three reasons: (1) bilingualism places an increased burden on memory processes); (2) the partial overlap between both DOM systems might lead to the influence from Catalan into Spanish); and (3) optionality has been proposed to characterize bilingual grammars). Findings from a word-by-word non-cumulative self-paced reading task showed that DOM modulates RC processing. With [+human] obligatorily marked objects, both monolinguals and bilinguals read subject RCs faster than object RCs, suggesting a strategy favoring subject RCs. However, monolinguals solved the interpretation early while processing but bilinguals, despite the more restricted DOM character of Catalan, are sensitive to DOM albeit displaying delayed spill-over effects. With [−human] optionally marked objects, bilinguals performed faster than monolinguals. We suggest that the uneven experience with DOM in Catalan, particularly with the non-standard variety that frequently displays DOM and that our bilinguals also speak in everyday conversations, facilitates bilinguals' adaptation to the optional marking of non-human objects in Spanish, much in the same manner that they accommodate the presence or absence of DOM with both human and non-human objects in other native language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the latest developments in the corpus language planning interventions in the implementation of the codification (Haugen, E. (1983). The implementation of corpus planning: theory and practice. In J. Cobarrubias & J. A. Fishman (Eds.), Progress in language planning. International perspectives (pp. 269–289). Mouton.) of Catalan by Catalan-language media corporations, taking into consideration that Catalan is a pluricentric language (Darder, L. (2015). La variació lingüística en els mitjans audiovisuals com a estratègia conscient. Treballs de sociolingüística catalana, 25, 303–316. https://raco.cat/index.php/TSC/article/view/342907; Costa-Carreras, J. (2021). Compositionality, pluricentricity, and pluri-areality in the Catalan standardisation. In A. Cortijo Ocaña & V. Martines (Eds.), History of Catalonia and its implications for contemporary nationalism and cultural conflict (pp. 182–197). IGI Global; Mas Castells, J. À. (2021). Invitació al pluricentrisme. Notes per a l'estudi d'una llengua pluricèntrica en conflicte. Treballs de sociolingüísticacatalana, 31, 15–30. https://raco.cat/index.php/TSC/article/view/386900) that is standardised both de facto and de jure. It concludes that Muhr, R. (2020). European pluricentric languages in contact and conflict – An overview. In R. Muhr, J. À. Mas Castells, & J. Rueter (Eds.), European pluricentric languages in contact and conflict (pp. 11–64). Peter Lang approach to language variation management does not fit with the Catalan communicative space, and that the proposals, both of the term multi-standard by Auer, P. (2021). Reflections on linguistic pluricentricity. Sociolinguistica, 35(1), 29–47. , and of the term location by Dollinger, S. (2019). The pluricentricity debate on Austrian German and other Germanic Standard varieties. Routledge are not needed, as Mas Castells's (2021) definition of 'centre' is fully pertinent for Catalan. A sociolinguistic and standardological perspective has been adopted (Joseph, J. E. (1987). Eloquence and power. The rise of language standards and standard languages. Frances Pinter; Costa-Carreras, J. (forthcoming). On the epistemological status of comparative standardology and standardisation. Caplletra, 79 (fall 2025)) to compare the style guides of three audiovisual media corporations, with an exemplification on a particular issue in relation to both prescription and use. An appropriate description of the linguistic pluricentricity of three Catalan-language media corporations (Darder 2015; Costa-Carreras 2021; Costa-Carreras, J. (2022, June 15–17). What ideological factors are relevant to analyse language variation management for Catalan? Talk presented at the Symposium Rules and incentives in language policy and planning: Economic, legal and sociolinguistic approaches; Mas Castells 2021) is therefore offered: the Catalan Broadcasting Corporation with headquarters in Catalonia, the Valencian Broadcasting Corporation with headquarters the Valencian Country, and the Broadcasting Public Entity of the Balearic Islands with headquarters in the Balearic Islands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El párrafo es una unidad esencial en el texto escrito. Con todo, quedan por explorar muchos aspectos de su contrucción discursiva. En este trabajo, nos preguntamos si existen marcadores del discurso introductores de párrafo. para ello nos centramos en un buen candidato, la forma del catalán dit això ("dicho esto/eso"), que, formalmente, es una cláusula absoluta de participio formada por el verbo decir y un demostrativo. Analizamos ejemplos procedentes del Corpues Textual Informatitzat de la Llengua Catalana del Institut d'Estudis Catalans. Después de delimitar la construcción respecto a usos no fijados o menos fijados (predicativos) de la secuencia, diferenciamos los casos en los que une párrafo de los casos en los que une oraciones. Una vez realizadas estas operaciones básicas, analizamos el funcionamiento del marcador. Establecemos sus funciones textuales (es decir, las relaciones de coherencia que manifiesta), algunos rasgos pragmáticos relevantes, como el género discursivo del texto en el que aparece, y sus características formales (posición y combinación). Ello permite relacionar dichos rasgos con la variable central de nuestro estudio (elementos unidos, es decir, párrafo u oración). El estudio muestra que dit això es una unidad en proceso de gramaticalización que funciona como estructurador de la información y se vincula a algunos géneros monologales (ensayo y periodismo) y a algunos géneros dialogales (sobre todo la narración). Del análisis cuantitativo podemos concluir que dit això se puede considerar un marcador de frontera discursiva, función que incluye el marcaje de párrafo, pero no se limita a dicha unidad, pues también da cuenta de casos de unión oracional (no marcada gráficamente como párrafo distinto) en los que hay un cambio enunciativo (paso de discurso citado a discurso citante). Dicha matización evita los problemas que comporta la arbitrariedad gráfica inherente al párrafo como unidad discursiva intermedia.

L’article analitza breument l’ampla varietat de conceptes de populisme en la política actual. Aquesta anàlisi intenta mostrar com el populisme ha donat suport als particularismes lingüístics a València i a Mallorca. Aquests particularismes ( anomenats blaverisme a València, i gonellisme a mallorca) no reconeixen la unitat de la comunitat lingüística catalana, i per tant amenacen la recuperació social (normalització) de la llengua catalana.

The clitic pronoun ne and the functional element de introducing nominal constituents have many nominal and prepositional functions across Romance languages. In this article, we focus on the nominal functions, singling out three different bundles of semantic features that characterize both ne and de. They can denote properties of individual entities, properties of kinds, or predicate properties. The article shows that Catalan ne and de display the three types of denotation, while Italian ne and de only display the first one. This article further supports the hypothesis that the indefinite determiner de can be overt or silent, thereby unifying de-phrases (and the Italian partitive article) with bare nouns. The analysis of de as an indefinite determiner is then extended to adjectival de, which is claimed to mark concord features on adjectives in both Catalan and Italian.

Aunque en un principio se dijese que los marcadores del discurso no eran propensos a la transmisión interlingüística, numerosos estudios sobre el dinamismo de los marcadores del discurso en distintas lenguas en contacto apuntan a que estas partículas son altamente proclives al préstamo y a la adaptación. La presente investigación analiza los valores que obtiene y desarrolla la partícula “entonces”, procedente del español, en la modalidad hablada de la variedad valenciana del catalán. A pesar de no ser la forma propia de la lengua, está altamente extendida en el registro informal del catalán valenciano, hasta el punto de que es una forma híbrida, es decir, que está adaptada fonéticamente a las normas fonológicas del catalán y se realiza como [entonses], [antonses] o [‘tonses], dependiendo del subdialecto. Aunque “entonces” no sea la única partícula que se haya prestado del español al catalán, no hay ningún estudio hasta la fecha que haya explorado sus usos en el valenciano. Por tanto, en el presente estudio se analiza la presencia de “entonces” en secuencias narrativas a partir de un corpus de entrevistas semidirigidas. Además, también se contrastan los usos de “entonces” con los de los mismos hablantes de la partícula propia en el catalán valenciano, “aleshores”, con tal de determinar si adquieren los mismos significados y si están en distribución complementaria o en sustitución completa. A pesar de la existencia de estudios sobre cada uno de estos marcadores en sus respectivas lenguas, esta es la primera investigación que analiza el uso de “entonces” en el discurso del catalán valenciano y lo contrasta con su forma propia. Con ello, la presente investigación pretende llenar el vacío que ya se ha explorado en otras situaciones de contacto y contextos lingüísticos mediante análisis pormenorizados de los usos, valores y posiciones de ambas formas de los marcadores discursivos.

Studies of speech rhythm have often used read speech rather than spontaneous speech in their comparisons. However, read speech has been shown to be perceptually different from spontaneous speech, which may be due to rhythmic differences between the two modes. To examine this, the effect of speaking mode (spontaneous or controlled) was assessed in a group of 82 Spanish-Catalan learners of English relative to a control group of 8 native English speakers. Results found strong rhythmic differences between the two modes, but minimal differences between the learners and native speakers. Additionally, Mahalanobis distance analyses revealed that non-native speakers differed significantly more from the native control group in the spontaneous condition than the controlled condition.

The interest towards Anton Chekhov’s theatre entered a new phase in the end of the seventies of the 20th century in Barcelona. A quarter of century after Franco’s death the translations of Chekhov’s plays into Catalan and representations thereof recorded a new growth: translators and artists were trying to fill the gap resulting from the cultural crisis suffered under the dictatorship by introducing into the national cultural system some of the most recognized authors of the world, already considered classics in the western neighbour countries (France, Great Britain, Germany). The 100th anniversary of Chekhov’s death offered a perfect occasion to pay tribute to the Russian author’s memory. The present research sums up the principal events dedicated to the centenary of Chekhov’s death in 2004 in Barcelona and focuses on the staging of “Uncle Vanya” by Joan Ollé, one of the most memorable interpretations of this play in Catalonia, in order to evaluate the reception thereof through the analysis of periodical issues. Based on Hans-Robert Jauss’s approach to the literature as a constant interaction between the work of art, the public and the author, the study sheds light on the reception of Chekhov’s theatre in Catalonia and its evolution from the first direct translation of the play until a key staging which, in turn, became a reference for the following generations. The analysis concludes that the centenary of Chekhov’s death may be considered an inflection point in the history of his reception in Catalonia. Thanks to the production of the first canonical staging of “Uncle Vanya” in Catalan, Chekhov’s name stopped being associated exclusively with popular performances produced by foreign companies.

This paper represents a substantial theoretical contribution to academic discussions on the management and negotiation of individual identity within minority ethnocultural communities. The introduced concept, termed 'identity transmutation,' delineates the process of identity construction elicited by revelatory experiences and unfolds across three stages: crisis, self-discovery, and commitment. This identity transmutation significantly influences the individual reappropriation of ethnocultural symbols within the minority community and contributes to the social revitalization of minority language and culture. The study is grounded in 39 in-depth qualitative interviews, presenting a compelling collection of autobiographical narratives. The selected participants span different generations and originate from Northern Catalonia, a distinctive sociolinguistic setting within France.