A Century of Research in Franco-Provençal and Poitevin: Eastern Vs. Western Gallo-Romance

Kathryn Klingebiel
University of California, Berkeley
Summary

Within the Gallo-Romance domain, Franco-Provençal and its western correlate Poitevin have been variously labeled ‘independent languages’, ‘dialects of French’, or ‘dialects of oc’. At least one attempt has been made to link these two lateral entities against both the north and the south. A historical survey of these conflicting claims encompasses non-partisan methodologies such as dialect geography and linguistic atlases as well as theoretical developments affecting Romance studies during the last one hundred years. Late 19th century research had not yet resolved antinomies between speech and script or between dialect study and historical grammar. Recent research into time and direction of Romanization, significantly clarifying the bi-(or tri-)partitioning of Gaul, has complemented increasingly sophisticated work in all these fields. Yet frequent overemphasis on segmentation, coupled with a failure to distinguish shared linguistic fate from ‘language’ in its general Romance acception, cannot be allowed to obscure the fact that both FP and Poitevin belong to Gallo-Romance; the successful investigation of either must continue to mesh grammar, lexis, scripta, and geohistory.

Quick links
Full-text access is restricted to subscribers. Log in to obtain additional credentials. For subscription information see Subscription & Price. Direct PDF access to this article can be purchased through our e-platform.

References

Ascoli, Graziadio Isaia
1874 [1878] “Schizzi franco-provenzali”. AGI 3.61–120.Google Scholar
1876 “P. Meyer e il franco-provenzale”. AGI 2.385–95.Google Scholar
1882–85 “Italia dialettale”. AGI 8.98–128.Google Scholar
Avalle, D’Arco Silvio
1962 Cultura e lingua francese delle origini nella ‘Passion’ di Clermont-Ferrand. Milano-Napoli: Riccardo Ricciardi.Google Scholar
1965 “Quelques problèmes à résoudre dans la critique textuelle de la Passion”. RPh 19.276–78.Google Scholar
1966 Alle origini della letteratura francese;I giuramenti di Strasburgo e la sequenza di santa Eulalia. ed. Luciana Borghi. Turin: G. Giappichelli.Google Scholar
Boehmer, Eduard
1873–74 “A Century of Research in Franco-Provençal and Poitevin”. Romanische Studien 1. Strassburg: Κ. Trübner.Google Scholar
Borodine, Myrrha
1958 “Sur le développement du francoprovençal”. RLiR 22.81–91.Google Scholar
Boucherie, Anatole
1873 Le dialecte poitevin au XIIIe siècle. Paris: Lauriel; Montpellier: F. Seguin.Google Scholar
Castellani, Arrigo
1956 [1959] “Le problème des Serments de Strasbourg ”. Atti dell’IV Congresso di Studi Romanzi, 103–125. Florence: Sansoni.Google Scholar
1969 “L’ancien poitevin et le problème linguistique des Serments de Strasbourg”. CN 29.201–234. (Repr. in Les dialectes de France au moyenâge et aujourd’hui, 387–425. Paris: Klincksieck 1972.)Google Scholar
Coquebert de Montbret, Eugène
1831 Mélanges sur les langues, dialectes et patois, renfermant entre autres une collection de versions de la parabole de l’enfant prodigue en cent idiomes ou patois différents …. Paris: Bureau de l’Almanach du Commerce.Google Scholar
Dauzat, Albert
1939 Tableau de la langue française. Paris: Payot. (Repr. 1967.)Google Scholar
Duraffour, Antonin
1932 Phénomènes généraux d’évolution phonétique dans les dialectes franco-provençaux, d’après le parler de Vaux-en-Bugey, Ain. [= RLiR 8]. Lyon & Paris.Google Scholar
Engler, Rudolf
1980 “Linguistique 1908: Un débat-clef de linguistique géographique et une question des sources saussuriennes”. Progress in Linguistic Historiography ed. by Konrad Koerner, 257–71. Amsterdam: Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Ewert, Alfred
1935 “The Strassburg Oaths”. Transactions of the Philological Society 1935, 16–35. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Gamillscheg, Ernst
1922 “Zur sprachlichen Gliederung Frankreichs”. Hauptfragen der Romanistik: Festschrift für Philip Augustus Becker, 50–74. Heidelberg: Carl Winter. (Repr. in Ausgewählte Aufsätze [I], ZFSL Suppl. 15 (1937), 79–101.)Google Scholar
Gardette, Mgr Pierre
1971 “Brève présentation du franco-provençal”. TLL 9:1.85–90.Google Scholar
Görlich, Ewald
1882 Die südwestlichen Dialekte der “langue d’oil”. (= Französische Studien, 2.) Heilbronn: Gebrüder Henninger.Google Scholar
Gossen, Carl Theodor
1969 “Zum Thema ‘Sprachgrenzen im Poutou’”. VR 28.61–71.Google Scholar
Gsell, Otto
1983 “Orientations actuelles en linguistique historique”. RPh 36.428–42. (= Review article on Wüest 1979.)Google Scholar
Hall, Robert Α., Jr.
1949 “The Linguistic Position of Franco-Provençal”. Language 25.1–14. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1953 “The Oaths of Strasburg (Phonemics and Classification)”. Language 29.317–23. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1965/66 “Graphie und Phonologie in den Strassburger Eiden”. ASNS 202.437–39.Google Scholar
Hasselrot, Bengt
1938 “Sur l’origine des adjectifs possessifs nostron et vostron en franco-provençal”. SN 11.62–84.Google Scholar
1952/53 Review of Pougnard (1952) SN 26.227–30.Google Scholar
Hilty, Gerold
1973 “Les origines de la langue littéraire française”. VR 32: 2.254–71.Google Scholar
King, Robert D(esmond)
1969 Historical Linguistics and Generative Grammar. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.Google Scholar
Koschwitz, Eduard
1886 Commentar zu den ältesten französischen Sprachdenkmälern. Heilbronn: Gebrüder Henninger.Google Scholar
Lahti, Ilmari
1951 “Le franco-provençal est-il un dialecte fictif?”. NM 52.6–9.Google Scholar
Leonard, Clifford S.
1966 “The Poitevin Evidence in Comparative Gallo-Romance”. RPh 19.468–82. (= Review article on Pignon 1960a.)Google Scholar
Lücking, Gustav
1877 Die ältesten französischen Mundarten. Berlin: Weidmann.Google Scholar
Lüdtke, Helmut
1962–63 “Zum Problem der Strassburger Eide”. ASNS 199. 391–93.Google Scholar
1963 “Nochmals zum Problem der Strassburger Eide”. ASNS 202.439–440.Google Scholar
Meyer, Paul
1875 “Périodiques” [= Review of AGI 3]. Romania 4.294–96.Google Scholar
1876 “Périodiques” [= Review of AGI 2]. Romania 5.504–506.Google Scholar
1877 “Périodiques” [= Review of Tourtoulon & Bringuier (1876)] Romania 6.630–33.Google Scholar
Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm
1890 Grammaire des langues romanes. Vol.I: Phonétique. Paris: Welter.Google Scholar
1901 Einführung in das Studium der romanischen Sprachwissenschaft. Heidelberg: Carl Winter.Google Scholar
Morf, Heinrich
1911 Zur sprachlichen Gliederung Frankreichs. Berlin: Georg Reimer.Google Scholar
Müller, Bodo
1971 “La bi-partition linguistique de la France (mise au point de l’état des recherches)”. RLiR 35.17–30.Google Scholar
1974 “La France et la romanisation”. TLL 12.7–29.Google Scholar
Paris, Gaston
1906 “Les parlers de France” [Lecture faite à la réunion des Sociétés savantes, le samedi 26 mars 1888]. Mélanges linguistiques, 432–51. Paris: H. Champion.Google Scholar
Pfister, Max
1973 “Die sprachliche Bedeutung von Paris und der Ile-de-France vor dem 13. Jahrhundert”. VR 32:2.217–53.Google Scholar
Pignon, Jacques
1953 “Les études de dialectologie poitevine”. Orbis 2.137–42.Google Scholar
1954 Review of Pougnard (1952) FM 22.231–35.Google Scholar
1960a L’evolution phonétique des parlers du Poitou (Vienne et Deux-Sèvres). Paris: Editions d’Artrey.Google Scholar
1960b Review of Borodine (1958) FM 28.315.Google Scholar
Pougnard, Gaston
1952 Le parler ‘franco-provençal’ d’Aiript, commune de Romans, canton de Saint-Maixant, Deux-Sèvres. Diss., Univ. of Poitiers. (Published, Poitiers: Chez l’auteur.) [Phonetic materials published separately, “Le parler ‘franco-provençal’ d’Aiript”, RLiR 17.121–57 (1952).]Google Scholar
Robson, Charles A.
1960 “Some Unsolved Problems of Franco-Provençal”. RPh 13.311–20.Google Scholar
Roncaglia, Aurelio
1965 Origini (Storia della letteratura italiana). Vol.I. Milan: Garzanti.Google Scholar
Ronjat, Jules
1930/1941 Grammaire [h]istorique des parlers provençaux modernes. 4 vols. Montpellier: Société des langues romanes.Google Scholar
Scharten, Teodora
1942 “La posizione linguistica del ‘Poitou’ (con sei cartine)”. Studi Romanzi 29.1–130.Google Scholar
Schmitt, Christian
1974 “Genèse et typologie des domaines linguistiques de la Galloromania”. TLL 12.31–83.Google Scholar
Schnakenburg, J. F.
1840 Tableau synoptique et comparatif des idiomes populaires ou patois de la France. Berlin: A. Foerstner.Google Scholar
Suchier, Hermann
1888 “Die französische und provenzalische Sprache und ihre Mundarten”. Grundriss der romanische Philologie, vol.I, 561–669. Strassburg: K. J. Trübner.Google Scholar
1902 “Die Mundart der Strassburger Eide”. Beiträge zur romanischen und englischen Philologie: Festgabe für Wendelin Förster, 199–204. Halle: M. Niemeyer.Google Scholar
Tourtoulon, Charles de, and Olivier Bringuier
1876 “Etude sur la limite géographique de la langue d’oc et de la langue d’oil (avec une carte)”. Archives des Missions Scientifiques et Littéraires, 3e sér., 3.544–605. (Published separately, Paris: Imprimerie Nationale 1876.)Google Scholar
Tuaillon, Gaston
1972 “Le francoprovençal: Progres d’une définition”. TLL 10.293–339.Google Scholar
Van Vliet, Edward Richie
1981 “The Generative Model of Dialectology: Burgundian, Franco-Provençal, and Standard French”. Word 31.45–62. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Wallenskjöld, Axel Gabriel
1927 “Les Serments de Strasbourg (1e plus ancien texte français conservé)”. Philologische Studien … Karl Voretsch zum 60. Geburtstag, 87–104. Halle: Niemeyer.Google Scholar
Wartburg, Walther von
1956 “Zum Problem des Franko-Provenzalischen”. Von Sprache und Mensch by W.v.W., 127–58. Bern: A. Francke. (Previously unpublished.)Google Scholar
Wüest, Jacob
1969 “Sprachgrenzen im Poitou”. VR 28.14–58.Google Scholar
1979 La dialectalisation de la Gallo-Romania: Problèmes phonologiques. (= Romanica Helvetica, 91.) Bern: Α. Francke.Google Scholar