OCCITAN  LINGUISTICS

Contents

Descriptive linguistics

• A description of the Occitan phonetic system, and the graphic system used to codify it, synthesis by M. Van den Bòsshe .
• A description of the main phonetical evolutions during the last two millenia, including some maps, synthesis by M. Van den Bòssche.
• A short description of the dialect spoken in Savés, by M. Vandembòs.
• Topicalisation et prolepse en occitan, by P. Sauzet.
• Basque and Gascon language contact ,an article about the relations of Occitan and Basque in the south west of Gascony by M. Haase.
• Linguistics atlas of Occitania (under construction), by M. Van den Bossche

• Idiomatismes sud-occitans e francismes corregits, synthesis by M. Van den Bossche

• An article by P. Sauzet about the necessity and the way to normalize Occitan : La grafia es mai que la grafia.
• Vers un Service de la langue occitane en Languedoc-Roussillon, by P. Sauzet.
• Langues en marge: l'exemple occitan by Mark Logue.
• Paradis et parité. Ou: De la coquetterie linguistique, by P.Sauzet.
• Debate on diglossy :
• Sociolinguistique militante et sociolinguistique empirique, by Andres Kristol
• Occitan sociolinguistics : La diglossie, conflit ou tabou ?,by P. Sauzet.
• Languages and desire. Two types of conceptions seem to prevail in the field of sociolinguistics, by P. Sauzet.
• Use and image of occitan : the results of several pools.