Morphologie verbale dans les parlers du pays de bitche. Essai de representation graphique automatique de la dynamique des variations geolinguistiques
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Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008)Disciplines:
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Abstract EN:
Focusing on the study of the verbal morphology (of both finite and non-finite forms) of the vernacular in 66 places of the eastern area of german-speaking lorraine (pays de bitche), this dissertation, more than an attempt at outlining a quantitative and qualitative areal typology, is a tentative application of the theory of graphs to the dynamics of geolinguistic variations. It is a tentative automatic graphic representation of continuous microvariations in the morphological system, based on the theory of graphs and some aspects of operational research. Using the notion of "path", a dynamic definition of the notion of dialect continnum is put forward. This study is a contribution to the developing search for interdisciplinary and operational concepts and tools, with a view to promoting, by means of heuristic procedures, the specific character of mathematics-based and computer-assisted geolinguistics (notion of "geolinguistic inter-relatedness"). The result is that, in presenting sub-programs based on the notion of recursivity, the optimization of the interareal flows of grains (and losses) of verbal forms and spaciolinguistic graphs, the bitche area, in spite of superficial turbulences, appears to be an organized whole, in other words a unified fields, criss-crossed by structuring microvariational networks representing the backbone of the macrodialectal continuum.
Abstract FR:
Ayant comme objet l'etude de la morphologie verbale (formes conjuguees et non conjuguees) dans quelque 66 points d'enquete de la partie est (= pays de bitche) de la lorraine germanophone, la these est au-dela de l'essai de typologie areale quantitative et qualitative qu'elle represente une tentative d'application de la theorie des graphes a l'etude de la dynamique des variations geolinguistiques. Il s'agit d'un essai de representation graphique automatique des phenomenes morphologiques microvariationnels continus ; en reference a la theorie des graphes et a certains aspects de la recherche operationnelle, on vise a partir de la notion de "chemin" a une definition "dynamique" de la notion de continuum dialectal (cf. Graphes et cartes automatiques). Ainsi, la mise en oeuvre de sous-programmes fondes sur la notion de recursivite, l'optimisation des flux interareaux de pertes (ou de gains) de formes verbales et la construction de graphes spatio-linguistiques font apparaitre le pays de bitche, en depit des "turbulences" superficielles, comme un tout organise, c'esta-dire un champ relationnel sillonne de reseaux microvariationnels structurants, veritables vecteurs du continuum macrodialectal. (contribution au developpement de la geolinguistique mathematique et informatique).