Questions tagged [catalan]
For questions concerning the Catalan language, a Romance language spoken in North-East Spain, Andorra, and Alghero (Sardinia, Italy).
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Why does the "passat perifràstic" use "anar" as an auxiliary?
In all other romance languages, to go + infinitive means that the action will happen in a near future, which makes sense intuitively, because metaphorically, we move toward an event which has not ...
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How Italian "dito" was derived from Latin DĬGĬTU(M)?
I'm trying to figure out which phenomena may be involved in the development of Italian "dito" from Latin DĬGĬTU(M).
I think one of them may be a loss of intervocalic -G-, as explained in ...
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How did these first person plural pronouns come to be in Catalan?
I recently saw this image comparing different first person plural masc. pronouns to Pokémon. For reference the pronouns listed are
Nosaltres (Cat. Central)
Natros (Tortosí)
Moatros (Val. Central)
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On the etymology of Balearic Catalan personal articles "en/na"
Catalan (like certain regional dialects of Spanish and Italian) uses definite articles before proper names:
El Pere ha arribat tard aquest matí.
La Maria ha arribat tard també.
In eastern (Balearic) ...
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Are there any corpora of informal and unstructured text labelled for Named Entity Recognition?
I have been searching since last week for annotated informal texts (with a lot of misspelled words, slang, etc.) to test some Named Entity Recognition tools for research purposes. For example, it ...
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Pronunciation of Fermat in Gascon/Occitan
A math professor mentioned that the final segment of Fermat's name would probably have been pronounced [t] because of "where he was from." She didn't clarify further but I looked up where he's from ...
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Catalan assimilation of 's' /s/ → [ʃ] after palatal consonants 'ny' /ɲ/ and 'll' /ʎ/
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I've noticed a phenomenon in (Central) Catalan speech that I had seen no mention of when studying the language. In words with a final -nys or -lls, the s is assimilated and becomes palatal [ʃ]...
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Why is the process of word-final non-continuant deletion and nasal assimilation in Catalan opaque?
Catalan has a process whereby word-final non-continuants undergo deletion and nasal assimilation. For example /ben+k/ surfaces as [beŋ] 'I sell'.
Why is this relation opaque?
Note: I found this ...
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