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Language Variation - European Perspectives VI: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig, May 2015
Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller and Beat Siebenhaar
[Studies in Language Variation 19] 2017
► pp. 71–84

Aggregate analysis of lexical variation in Galician

| Instituto da Lingua Galega, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

This paper presents the results of an aggregate analysis of lexical maps from the Atlas Lingüístico Galego. Aggregate dialectology enables an analysis of a large set of data and identification of behavioural patterns in it which help to account for territorial nuclei of spatial distribution. Using this procedure, we were able to identify in the Galician linguistic territory a set of dialectal areas showing internal similarity. The results also make it possible to discover areas where one may identify linguistic proximity to other zones belonging to adjacent, closely related linguistic domains within Galician. This study yields conclusions that are sufficiently solid to suggest that the analysis of lexical variation across space ought to be incorporated into descriptions of Galician language variation.

Keywords: dialects, lexical variation, lexical areas, aggregate analysis, Romance languages, Galician
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Galician dialects
  • 3.The data set
  • 4.Results and commentary
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 26 July 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.19.04sou
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