X. Romansh Studies
Romance Languages 555 X. ROMANSH STUDIES By KENNETH H. RoGERS, University ofRhode Island (This survey covers the years 1990 and 1991) I. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND GENERAL Giovan Battista Pellegrini, La genesi del retoroman;:;o (o ladino) (ZRP, Beiheft 238), Tiibingen, Niemeyer, 71 pp., again takes up the theme of his article 'The sociolinguistic position of central Rhaeto-Romance (Ladin)', RPh; 40, rg87:287-300, to trace in detail the history of the positing of the unity of Rheto-Romance. P. castigates ( r) Romance scholars who have not fully read or understood the works of Salvioni or Battisti (2) those put off by a perceived Italian nationalist bias in Battisti's denial of RR unity (3) Dolomitic Ladin nationalists and teachers who advocate autonomy on spurious linguistic grounds, and (4) politicians who yielded to these nationalists by creating autono mous regions. While conceding that the Sella dialects constitute a special group of 'periferal and archaic' survivals (p. 47), P. again affirms his denial ofRR unity and of the status ofLadin separate from northern Italian dialects. P. returns to this theme in 'Qualche considerazione sui "reto-romanzo" ', Linguistica (Ljubljana), 3 r: 33 r- 39· C. K. Kamprath, 'Rheto-Romance', Comparative Romance Linguis tics Newsletter, 40:49-52. K. Widmer, *'Publicaziuns rg8g: Tscherna bibliografica', Annalas de la Societa Retorumantscha, r 03, r ggo: r 93-98. 2. LANGUAGE GENERAL. P. Beninca, 'La variazione linguistica del Friuli e Ia linguistica romanza: Ia posizione del friulano occidentale', Cefastu?, 66, r ggo: 2 r 9-32, asserts that, in most respects, phonological and morphosyntactic differences within Friulan are surface distinctions, and that Friulan as a whole is characterized by features, such as obligatory pronoun subjects in verbs, which characterize northern Italian and even French, but which do not always characterize Dolomitic Ladin.
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