Sociolinguistica storica nella Sardegna medievale. Aspetti, problemi, affioramenti: fra dialettologia e filologia

Maurizio Virdis

2018-01-01

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Abstract

It is always a gamble to make historical sociolinguistic: we must triangulate between dialectology, philology, history of language and history. Here I intend to proceed with the hypothesis that it would not be exact and too simplistic considering north-central sardinian dialects to be more conservative than southern ones; in fact, conservation and innovation must be viewed in a dynamic way, so that a chronologically conservative feature can be the categorization of a diastratically and diaphasically high feature, though introducted more recently, while an innovative feature may be the transformation 'in loco' of an older feature. In many respects the north-central sardinian dialects are – I think - the continuation of the second, more "cultured" later Romanization, more recent than the older Romanization as southern Sardinia one.