The ''Atlas linguistique de la France'' (ALF, Linguistic Atlas of France) is an influential
dialect atlas of
Romance varieties in France published in 13 volumes between 1902 and 1910 by
Jules Gilliéron and Edmond Edmont.
Whereas
Georg Wenker
Georg Wenker (January 25, 1852 – July 17, 1911) was a German linguist who began documenting German dialect geography during the late nineteenth century. He is considered a pioneer in this field and contributed several groundbreaking publica ...
had used postal questionnaires to compile his pioneering ''Sprachatlas des deutschen Reichs'' in 1888, Gilliéron employed a fieldworker, Edmond Edmont.
Between 1896 and 1900, Edmont conducted 700 interviews at 639 locations throughout the countryside of France, southern Belgium, western Switzerland, the Channel Islands, and the Aosta Valley and the Occitan Valleys of Piedmont in Italy, using a questionnaire of over 1,500 items devised and continually revised by Gilliéron.
The results were collated and analysed by Gilliéron and his assistants.
Gilliéron's survey stimulated interest in dialect geography, and became the model for later works elsewhere.
Two of his students,
Karl Jaberg and
Jakob Jud, directed a survey of Italian dialects of Italy and southern Switzerland, published as the ''Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz'' (1928–1940).
Jud and one of his fieldworkers helped to train fieldworkers for the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada project, which produced the ''
Linguistic Atlas of New England'' (1939–1940), the ''
Linguistic Atlas of the Upper Midwest'' (1973–1976) and the ''
Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States'' (1986–1992).
References
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External links
''Atlas linguistique de la France'' Centre national de la recherche scientifique
supplementary materials Internet Archive
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
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