Since the 1970s, the Corsican language has undergone a process of linguistic revitalisation. While the use of the language has declined in the private sphere, it has gained ground in the public sphere, particularly through schools, the media, arts and culture, and political discourse. Today, the language claim is largely consensual and transpartisan: social bilingualism is clearly identified as a goal and manifests itself concretely with the emergence of new speakers. Despite being at the centre of language policies and action-research, new speakers are nevertheless a largely taboo or even unthought-of category. This article examines language planning documents, sociolinguistic surveys, school discourses and scholarly publications to analyse how the issue of new speakers has been addressed in recent decades.
After collecting over the past years a substantial number of nominal compounds from Latin authors spanning from the archaic age to the late antiquity, a graph database has been created. This database is capable of classifying the types of compounds, showing the members they are composed of, and specifying in which works and by which authors they are used. The database can be interrogated through a series of queries that return structured data. The analysis of these data makes it possible to draw interesting insights not only about the specific occurrences of certain compounds within the examined corpus, but also to verify whether there are relationships linking literary genres to specific types of compounds.
This study is part of a broader research project on coreference phenomena in the Latin language, entitled . This paper focuses specifically on the publication as Linked Open Data of a set of coreference annotations performed on a selection of Latin texts. The annotations are applied to texts already available as Linked Open Data within the LiLa Knowledge , a collection of interoperable linguistic resources for Latin. CorefLat systematically identifies and tags entities and mentions, establishing relational links between them. The annotated corpus covers various historical periods and literary genres, including Augustine's , Plautus' , Caesar's De Bello , and Seneca's , offering a balanced dataset suitable for broad linguistic analysis. In this paper we also provide quantitative data on the annotations carried out so far, by showing some patterns and distributions of the linguistic phenomena within the dataset. Building on this, the paper describes how coreference phenomena are encoded as Linked Open Data using standard classes and object properties from the POWLA framework.
This paper examines lexical and phonological features found in the Sardinian language as spoken by television workers. Based on a corpus of television broadcasts of approximately 15 hours, I will show how the L1 of the speakers leads to significant simplifications in the stressed vowel system and notable inconsistencies in the consonant system. These features differentiate this type of speaker from those with native or near-native competence.
Phenomena of linguistic purism may concern minority languages, as they gain public visibility and attract new speakers, even while their everyday use declines. These dynamics have been studied in relation to the Sardinian language, which has recently been increasing its presence on the Internet and social media. The written Sardinian used in such new contexts has been compared with the informal, semi-spontaneous Sardinian spoken by 'traditional' native speakers living both on the island and on the Italian mainland. Results show that a new variety of Sardinian, characteristic of formal and public contexts, is emerging with puristic and conservative features, as it tends to avoid linguistic solutions perceived as too close to the Italian model. The distance from informal Sardinian has been highlighted, with possible consequences on the perception of authenticity and naturalness of this new formal variety.
