Atlas linguistique de la Méditerranée

Atlas linguistique de la Méditerranée
Name	Atlas linguistique de la Méditerranée
Subject	Linguistics

Atlas linguistique de la Méditerranée is a historical linguistic atlas compiling dialectal data from the Mediterranean basin linking fieldwork, cartography, and comparative philology. The project situates regional speech varieties within broader currents exemplified by work in comparative studies by scholars associated with institutions such as École pratique des hautes études, Collège de France, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, University of Barcelona, and Università di Roma La Sapienza. Its scope intersects research traditions represented by figures and projects like Ferdinand de Saussure, Antoine Meillet, Ioan Ărdelean, Franz Bopp, August Schleicher, and regional endeavors like the Atlas linguistique de la France, Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada, Atlante linguistico italiano.

Présentation

The atlas presents dialectal maps, phonetic transcriptions, lexical inventories, and isogloss analyses drawing on field notes from sites across Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Palestine, Cyprus, Malta, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Monaco, Andorra, San Marino, Vatican City, Corsica, Sardinia, and Balearic Islands. It aligns with cartographic standards used by projects at Oxford University, Harvard University, Sorbonne University, University of Cambridge, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Institut national d'études démographiques.

Histoire et genèse

Conceived amid postwar comparative linguistics currents, the atlas draws intellectual lineage from the comparative philology networks of Karl Brugmann, Hermann Paul, Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, Leonard Bloomfield, Roman Jakobson, and institutional patrons such as École Normale Supérieure, Université de Genève, Università di Napoli Federico II, University of Athens, and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Funding and coordination at various stages involved entities like UNESCO, European Commission, Ford Foundation, Wellcome Trust, and regional academies including the Académie française, Real Academia Española, Accademia della Crusca, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and Academia delle Scienze di Torino. Milestones reference conferences held in Nice, Barcelona, Rome, Istanbul, Tunis, and Athens with participation by scholars affiliated to University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Columbia University, University of Chicago, and University of California, Berkeley.

Méthodologie et corpus

Field methods combine elicitation techniques pioneered by teams around Ludwig Klages, Pietro Gilli, Henriette Walter, Jean-François Champollion, and laboratory phonetics standards at International Phonetic Association. The corpus integrates recorded interviews, transcriptions in International Phonetic Alphabet, and metadata schema compatible with archives at Bibliothèque nationale de France, British Library, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, Biblioteca Nacional de España, National Library of Israel, Library of Congress, and Austrian National Library. Sampling strategies reference stratified site selection used in the Survey of English Dialects and the Linguistic Atlas Project, with comparative protocols aligned to projects at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Contenu et cartes principales

Major plates map vowel shifts, consonant inventories, lexical cognates, syntactic constructions, and contact phenomena involving Occitan, Catalan language, Castilian Spanish, Galician language, Portuguese language, French language, Italian language, Sicilian language, Sardinian language, Neapolitan language, Romanesco dialect, Corsican language, Greek language, Modern Greek dialects, Albanian language, Maltese language, Arabic language, Maghrebi Arabic, Berber languages, Kabyle language, Coptic language, Turkish language, Kurdish languages, Hebrew language, Aramaic languages, Armenian language, Bulgarian language, Serbian language, Croatian language, Bosnian language, Romanian language, Aromanian language, and Judaeo-Spanish. The atlas contains thematic maps comparable to those in works by Ernest Gilliéron, François Vauquelin de La Fresnaye, Paul Vidal de la Blache, and cartographers from Institut Géographique National and Ordnance Survey.

Impact et réception académique

Scholars from University of Paris, University of Salamanca, Sapienza University of Rome, University of Athens, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Istanbul, University of Tunis El Manar, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and Institute for Balkan Studies cited the atlas in debates on substrate influence, areal linguistics, and language contact involving work by Norbert Elias, Émile Benveniste, Mikhail Bakhtin, Alexander Popov, and Hans Kurath. Reviews in journals such as Language, Journal of Linguistics, Revue de Linguistique Romane, Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, Romance Philology, and Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris discuss methodology alongside comparative studies from Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, University of Chicago Press, and John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Éditions et publications

Editions appeared in printed fascicles, bound volumes, and offprints distributed by presses including Presses Universitaires de France, Edizioni dell'Atleta, Editorial Crítica, Ecole Française d'Athènes, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, and academic series from Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Éditions. Later digital editions were produced in collaboration with Gallica, Europeana, Project Gutenberg Australia, DARIAH, CLARIN, HathiTrust, and university repositories at University of Barcelona Digital Repository and Digital Public Library of America.

Conservation et accessibilité des données

Archival holdings reside in national and university archives such as Bibliothèque nationale de France, National Library of Spain, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, National Library of Greece, Israel Antiquities Authority archives, National Library of Turkey, National Library of Malta, Tunisian National Archives, and research centers including Centre de Recherche en Linguistique Appliquée, Instituto de Lingüística Andrés Bello, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA). Digital preservation initiatives reference standards developed at International Council on Archives, Open Archives Initiative, ISO, UNESCO Memory of the World, and collaborative platforms like GitHub and Zenodo for dataset dissemination. Category:Linguistic atlases