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PLACEMENT OF CATALAN IN THE ROMANCE SCHEMA (SPAIN)

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Date Issued:
1971
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The purpose of this thesis is to present an objective overview of the controversy concerning the placement of Catalan among the Western Romance languages. Catalan has been classified as Ibero-Romance) Galla-Romance) and as a member of new groupings of the various Romance languages) such as a distinct Pyrenean group (Gascon) Aragonese) Catalan) and one large group of the Western Romance languages which exeludes French. A critical analysis of the theories of classification shows the Ibero-Romance theory to be the soundest. The strongest evidence for the Ibero-Romance affiliation of Catalan was obtained from linguistic comparisons of Modern Catalan and Old Castilian or other dialects and languages of the Peninsula) excluding Modern Castilian because it was the most innovative.
Title: THE PLACEMENT OF CATALAN IN THE ROMANCE SCHEMA (SPAIN).
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Name(s): MEDEMA, BARBARA ANN HERRING.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Trammell, Robert L., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1971
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 74 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The purpose of this thesis is to present an objective overview of the controversy concerning the placement of Catalan among the Western Romance languages. Catalan has been classified as Ibero-Romance) Galla-Romance) and as a member of new groupings of the various Romance languages) such as a distinct Pyrenean group (Gascon) Aragonese) Catalan) and one large group of the Western Romance languages which exeludes French. A critical analysis of the theories of classification shows the Ibero-Romance theory to be the soundest. The strongest evidence for the Ibero-Romance affiliation of Catalan was obtained from linguistic comparisons of Modern Catalan and Old Castilian or other dialects and languages of the Peninsula) excluding Modern Castilian because it was the most innovative.
Identifier: 13464 (digitool), FADT13464 (IID), fau:12648 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1971.
Subject(s): Catalan language
Romance languages
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