Un corpus col·loquial i dialectal del valencià: PARLARS

Abstract

Summary: The corpus PARLARS aims to document the colloquial not interfered Catalan (Beltran / Segura, 2017) before it disappears, owing to both the pressure of standard and especially linguistic contact with Spanish (Segura, 2003). It also wants to offer researchers adequate materials to develop studies of description and analysis of the linguistic variation of Catalan, especially the one related to functional (colloquial) and dialectal varieties. Finally, using data provided by the corpus, we try to test the hypothesis that languages function as conventionalized structures, as explained by Cognitive Construction Grammar (Goldberg, 2003; Taylor, 2012; Hilpert, 2014). This article presents the first phase of the construction of this corpus which consists precisely of defining its main characteristics, the working methodology and the transcription system, as well as the results obtained so far. Keywords: corpus, colloquial variety, variation, Catalan, Valencian, synchrony, Cognitive Construction G