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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Bable/Asturian [was:Re: English importation of words
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Fascinating post!

In article <4k7l20$qf9@neptunus.pi.net>,
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@pi.net> wrote:
[snip]
>The oddest thing to my mind is that Valencian is a West-Catalan
>dialect, while the vast majority of Catalan settlers came from Eastern
>Catalonia (Girona, Barcelona, Tarragona).  This is not fully explained
>by assuming that the East Catalan distinctive features arose later (so
>Lleida, Tortosa and Valencia would simply be conserving archaisms).  

I'm curious why not.

>I
>rather suspect that the large Aragonese element in Valencia had
>something to do with shifting the balance towards West Catalan (West
>Catalan phonology is closer to Castilian/Aragonese, and bilingual or
>at least Catalan-speaking Aragonese would have been most familiar with
>neighbouring West Catalan).

What kind of remnants of Aragonese adstratum or substratum are there
in Valencian?  Does their settlement have anything to do with the
distribution of apitxat, for instance?
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