L'occitan du sud-est de la Charente - Olivier Dussouchaud

L'occitan du sud-est de la Charente - Olivier Dussouchaud

(Occitan from south-east Charente - Grammar and lexicon of the Occitan language of Aubeterre-sur-Dronne and Villebois-Lavalette)

The transition zone between langue d'oc and langue d'oïl crosses almost the entire Gallo-Romance area from east to west. A clear boundary alternates with intermediate speech areas, including the Angoumoisin language - also known more contemporarily as périgourdin occidental - in the south-east of the Charente in the former cantons of Aubeterre-sur-Dronne and Villebois-Lavalette, also known as Croissant méridional in reference to the Croissant marchois further north. This book takes a descriptive linguistic approach to this particular Occitan language, exploring it from a wide range of perspectives: phonetics, lexicon, prosody, grammar and conjugation. For each of these, the language is characterized by a large majority of Occitan features, regularly combined with a few Oïl language features.

Collection Langue et parole, L’Harmattan.

The author:

Olivier Dussouchaud holds a doctorate in language sciences and teaches at the Université Toulouse 2 - Jean Jaurès. Trained as a biologist, he taught life sciences for fifteen years. He subsequently published several works in Occitan before devoting himself to research in dialectology and sociolinguistics..