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2017 Revisiting the Calssification of Gallo-Italic Revisiting the classification of Gallo-Italic ANGOR UNIVERSITY Tamburelli, Marco; Brasca, Lissander Digital Scholarship in the Humanities DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqx041 PRIFYSGOL BANGOR / B Published: 01/06/2018 Peer reviewed version Cyswllt i'r cyhoeddiad / Link to publication Dyfyniad o'r fersiwn a gyhoeddwyd / Citation for published version (APA): Tamburelli, M., & Brasca, L. (2018). Revisiting the classification of Gallo-Italic: a dialectometric approach. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 33(2), 442-455. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqx041 Hawliau Cyffredinol / General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. 24. Sep. 2021 Revisiting the classification of Gallo-Italic: a dialectometric approach. Marco Tamburelli (Bangor University) Lissander Brasca (Bangor University) Abstract While Gallo-Italic varieties clearly belong to the Romance language family, their subgrouping as either Gallo-Romance or Italo-Romance has been the source of disagreement in the classificatory literature. While earlier analyses tended to classify Gallo-Italic as Gallo-Romance (notably Schmid, 1956; Bec, 1970-1971), later work has either argued for or tacitly assumed a classification of Gallo- Italic as part of the Italo-Romance branch, a view that is both different from as well as irreconcilable with the earlier Gallo-Romance classifications. In this paper we aim to contribute to the development of an empirically-based classification of Gallo-Italic through the use of dialectometry applied to atlas corpora, and specifically through the measurement of Levenshtein distance. Using three wordlists (Swadesh 100, Swadesh 200, Leipzig-Jakarta) and comparing twenty-six linguistic varieties across Italy and south-eastern France, we show that Gallo-Italic is best classified as a third subgroup within the Gallo-Romance branch. Our results also clearly identify all the major bundles of isoglosses established through traditional dialectological methods and confirm Gallo-Italic as a relatively homogenous group distinct from Italo-Romance. Introduction Since the work of Bartoli (1936) and Wartburg (1950), it is generally agreed that the Rimini- La Spezia line is an important isogloss for Romance classification in general and for the classification of Italian vernaculars in particular (see Green, 2009; Iacobini, 2009; Repetti, 1996; and the volume edited by Maiden & Parry,1997, for more recent discussion). There is also broad agreement on the fact that most of the Romance vernaculars traditionally spoken between the Alps and the Rimini-La Spezia line form a generally homogenous group known as “Gallo-Italic”. As shown in figure 1, this group is comprised of the Romance varieties historically spoken in the administrative regions of Emilia-Romagna, Liguria, Lombardy, and Piedmont in Italy and the canton of Ticino in Switzerland, as well as in smaller areas in the province of Trento, the Swiss canton of Grisons/Graubünden and in the northern most part of Tuscany. Gallo-Italic varieties border with Venetan varieties to the east1 and with Occitan and Franco-Provençal to the west (for an overview, see Harris & Vincent, 2003; and Posner, 1996). Fig. 1 The Gallo-Italic group and its neighbouring Romance varieties. Each variety is identified via its ISO 639-3 code (Lewis, Simons, & Fennig, 2014). The Classification of Gallo-Italic While the existence of Gallo-Italic as a group is undisputed, the classification of Gallo-Italic within Romance is a point of contention. Specifically, the scholarly literature on Romance classification proposes two distinct classifications for Gallo-Italic. According to what is perhaps the most influential tradition on the classification of Italian vernaculars, Gallo-Italic varieties belong to the Italo-Romance branch. On this view, Gallo-Italic is part of a dialect group that includes all Romance varieties historically spoken in Italy, Corsica, and Canton Ticino (southern Switzerland), but excluding Occitan, Franco-Provençal/Arpitan (classified as Gallo-Romance), Sardinian (classified as a separate branch), Ladin and Friulian (classified as Rhaeto-Romance)2. Works that are representative of this tradition include Wartburg (1950), Merlo (1960-1961), Hall (1974), Pellegrini (1973; 1992), Loporcaro (2009) and, in some respects, Lausberg (1956). Within this tradition, Gallo-Italic varieties are either explicitly classified as Italo-Romance (and consequently excluded from the Gallo-Romance group) or indirectly presumed to be Italo-Romance, as is the case with classifications that consider Gallo-Italic as simply “Northern Italian” or even just “Italian” (e.g. Kabatek & Pusch, 2011). However, according to a second, less influential tradition, Gallo-Italic is part of the Gallo- Romance branch, separated from Italo-Romance by the Rimini-La Spezia line. Hull (1982) is perhaps the most extensive comparative analysis carried out within this tradition, culminating in a proposal for a genealogical classification of Gallo-Italic as part of a wider historical linguistic branch that he calls “Padanian”, comprising of the Gallo-Italic and Rhaetic continua (not unlike the “Cisalpine” group in the work of Pellegrini, 1992, 1995), and belonging to the larger Gallo-Romance branch within the Western Romance group. Hull concludes that “the Romance vernaculars of Northern Italy and Rhaetia have conserved, and in many cases have developed further, their original Gallo-Roman structure” (1982:660), and warns against giving unwarranted to the “superficial Italic, German and Franco-Occitan influences” which are “insufficient to warrant a classification of all or part of the Rhaeto- Cisalpine zone as “Italo-Romance” in the strictly linguistic sense of the term.” (1982:660). Similar conclusions had previously been reached by Ascoli (1890), Schmid (1956) and Bec (1970-1971) who explicitly classified Gallo-Italic varieties as part of the Gallo-Romance branch, a classification that found further support in the work of Pellegrini (1992, 1995) and Kotliarov, (2009). Nevertheless, the classification of Gallo-Italic remains unclear, with most recent work not taking any particular stand on the issue, while at the same time assuming – either implicitly or explicitly – that Gallo-Italic is essentially Italo-Romance3, and thus linguistically closer to the varieties south of the Rimini La Spezia than to – say – Provençal or Rumantsch. The assumption that Gallo-Italic belongs to the Italo-Romance branch is rather widespread in the modern sociolinguistic literature (e.g. Cerruti, 2011; Dal Negro & Vietti, 2006) but can also be found in the literature on Romance typology (e.g. Schmid, 2012), lexicography (e.g. Barbato & Varvaro, 2004; Crevatin, 2004), and syntactic analysis (Garzonio & Poletto, 2009). These two classifications – both based on the family-tree model – are not only distinct from each other, they are also irreconcilable insofar as they take Gallo-Italic to belong to two distinct sub-groups that are not in a sisterhood relationship. Fig. 2 Partial tree model indicating the position of Gallo-Romance in relation to Italo- Romance. As shown by the oval in figure 2, the two classifications are irreconcilable since the two nodes under which they classify Gallo-Italic, namely Gallo-Romance and Italo-Romance, are neither sisters nor in a mother-daughter relationship. In other words, the contention is not only about the classification of Gallo-Italic in itself, but also about its ancestor as either Western-Romance or Proto-Italian, thus making the two classifications considerably different from each other. Classificatory criteria The genetic or genealogical classification of languages is based on the measurement of successive innovations. Each innovation sets a variety apart from its original parent language, and shared innovations among varieties provide evidence for the formation of a sub-family (see Fox, 1995 for a detailed overview). Importantly, innovations are only considered as evidence if they are pervasive. This is in order to exclude the possibility that some apparently innovative trait resulted from borrowing rather than from systematic change (see Joseph & Janda, 2003 for a complete discussion). For the same reason, the innovations at the basis of classificatory linguistics are mostly phonetic/phonological and occasionally morpho- phonological, since those are the linguistic areas where regular, systematic change can be observed. The more innovations a set of varieties share, the more likely it is that those innovations are due to common ancestry rather than to coincidental, parallel development. While these principles are generally undisputed, dialectologists have often selected specific linguistic traits that they wished to analyse for signs of innovation and/or archaisms. For example, Pei (1949) compiled a classification of some Romance
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