Marinus Wiedner, Grammatical Gender in Old Occitan. A Variationist Corpus-based Approach, Orbis Romanicus, Narr.

J’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer que ma thèse de doctorat avec le titre
“Grammatical Gender in Old Occitan. A Variationist Corpus-based Approach” a
été publiée la semaine dernière dans la collection Orbis Romanicus chez Narr.
Elle est également disponible en libre accès (Open Access) :
https://doi.org/10.24053/9783381165124

Vous trouverez ci-dessous le résumé de la monographie :

This study treats variation in grammatical gender in Old Occitan. By integrating corpus linguistic, typological, and sociolinguistic methods, the research succeeds in tracing the dynamics of gender-systems in usage. For this sake, a corpus was created based on 17 manuscripts from the Languedoc and Provence, written in the 13th and 14th centuries. This enables the author to grasp the variation present in medieval languages and avoids biases from the normalisation of editions. With this approach, the investigation of gender variation is based on a solid empirical foundation and thus demonstrates the kinds of new insights that become attainable when linguistic data are approached from a historically informed, discourse-tradition-aware, text-pragmatic, and norm-historical perspective.

Bien Cordialement,
Marinus Wiedner