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This article presents a brief overview of the official language certifications available for seven Romance minority languages which are spoken in Europe: Aragonese, Asturian, Catalan, and Galician (primarily spoken on the Iberian peninsula), Corsican and Occitan (spoken in France), and Romansh (spoken in Switzerland). As a component of a broader project which has previously examined official credentials for selected Celtic and Slavic languages, the study first outlines general information about the Romance language family and the minority and minoritised languages which are members of it, before giving a short overview of language certifications as well as the study’s methodology and research questions. Subsequently, in adopting a similar approach to the previous analyses, each of the seven linguistic case studies is presented with the objective of obtaining core information about the types, levels, awarding institutions, and wider recognition relating to the certifications concerned. These findings are then discussed, after which some conclusions and additional research possibilities are offered.

Recent sociolinguistic studies have emphasized the role of the linguistic landscape (LL) in relation to languages and identity negotiation. The present study examines the presence of Asturian, a minoritized language spoken in the Principality of Asturies, in the LL of a town located in the center of Asturies: Mieres. Through qualitative analyses, data illustrate that Asturian has visibility not only on top-down signage but also on bottom-up. Furthermore, findings reveal that the use of this language, as well as semiotic resources that convey the Asturian identity in the Mieres signage, portray the struggles and fragility of the Asturian minoritized linguistic group within this locality. This study illustrates the importance of comprehensive implementation of language protection policies in relation to the maintenance and revitalization of minoritized languages, as well as in the protection of a speech community’s linguistic rights.

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In many cases of stress-dependent harmony the trigger is associated with a morpheme. We examine two instances of morphemic harmony where the triggering morpheme is mixed, that is, it consists of segmental material and floating features. The floating features cause stepwise raising of the stressed vowel, /a/→ [e], and /e/→ [i], /o/ → [u]. We examine in particular Felechosa Asturian, where the triggering masculine singular count morpheme usually has the exponent /-o/ and the floating features [+high] and [-low]. When the stressed vowel is mid, /-o/ raises it to high (/neɡɾ-o/ → [ˈniɣɾ-o]). When the stressed vowel is /a/, the suffix raises this vowel to [e] as predicted, but at the same time the triggering morph /-o/ raises to [u] (/blank-o/ → [ˈbleŋk-u]). This phenomenon, which we call harmony in situ, derives from the fact that, because raising is stepwise, one of the floating features cannot link to the stressed vowel, and thus it has to be realized on the trigger itself. Felechosa Asturian is compared to Ll e na Asturian, which does not present harmony in situ, and an optimality-theoretic analysis is provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze some syllable lengthening phaenomena in oral speech of south-central area of Asturias. In local language converge both vowel harmony and syllable lengthening phaenomena linked to different pragmatic functions, either with stressed and unstressed phonetic units. This phenomena will be analysed attending to different illocutionary types and different pragmatic variables as well as considering their confluence with other kinds of prominence (intensity and pitch) and even incipent cases of grammaticalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Middle-passive constructions in Asturian –a Romance language spoken in the diglossic region of Asturias, in northern Spain– appear to optionally allow the occurrence of the reflexive pronoun se in them (esti pan esmigáya(se) fácil; ‘this bread crumbles easily’); this has been traditionally considered a pleonastic use of the reflexive due to the influence of Spanish, i.e. the dominant language in the territory (ALLA 2001). Here, I claim that the presence of such pronoun is not optional; instead, I argue that this clitic spells out a passive Voice head encoding the participation of an implicit generic agent/experiencer in the event, giving rise to a generic se-passive configuration. The se-less counterpart, on the contrary, is only possible with unaccusative verbs and those undergoing the causative alternation, thus resulting in a generic inchoative configuration. Among the evidence I present supporting this claim is the fact that only the reflexive variant can control into a purpose clause, but it does not license the insertion of the PP por sí mesmu (‘by itself’); this is quite the opposite of what happens with the se-less counterpart. Additionally, I explain that the presence/absence of the reflexive in middle contexts in Asturian and Asturian Spanish may be subject to crosslinguistic influence; therefore, several cases of linguistic transfer between Asturian and Asturian Spanish are teased apart and discussed.

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Coal-bearing sediments of the Radnice and Nýřany members (Kladno Formation) were explored in the SW part of the Plzeň Basin in an area between the villages Pankrác and Rochlov during field seasons of 2007-2021. The goal of the research was to find sites where the Whetstone Horizon (Radnice Member) and the Main Nýřany Coal Seam with fauna-bearing sapropel coal occur close to the surface. Both horizons bear record of the Fossil-Lagerstatte-type, which makes such areas promising for their future exploration as paleontological localities. Based on the combined information from old mining maps, boreholes and geological maps, we suggested sites suitable for future shallow excavations and paleontological research of the fossil-bearing horizons. We tested and further refined our assumptions based on evaluation of archival data from 51 shallow pits and 3 shallow boreholes. The Whetstone Horizon has been found in six different sites at depths between 2 and 7 m. Besides the typical architecture of the Whetstone Horizon composed of the coarse-grained light-coloured tuff at the base (so-called "bělka") and overlain by laminated tuffitic mudstone (so-called Whetstone) tuffite - tuff - coal seam, also tuffite - tuff - mudstone, tuff - mudstone, tuffite - coal seam and tuffite - arkosic sandstone sequences have been documented. The pits demonstrated that the Whetstone Horizon features variable thicknesses over a short distance. Flora and fauna found in the bělka tuff bed is documented. The Main Nýřany Coal Seam with bands of sapropel coal has been found in two pits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper explores the generalization of the Affix Support condition to clitics, in order to explain the most distinctive properties of the different kinds of possessive DPs in Asturian. In doing so, the paper also unveils some derivational mechanisms with the potential of explaining the different kinds of agreement asymmetries typical of possessive DPs in this Romance language. From a broader theoretical perspective, the paper is also aimed as a contribution capable of offering some conceptual and empirical support to a model of the Syntax-Phonology interface which downsizes the degree of encapsulation and domain-specificity of the computational and externalization dimensions of the faculty of language.

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Studies on the correlations between spatial distribution of linguistic varieties and genetic structure of populations began by dealing with geographic spaces and extensive linguistic families. In the last two decades, researchers with this type of interdisciplinary approach have also begun to study more reduced linguistic and population domains. This paper examines geolinguistic and onomastic information in a linguistic and administrative space of a limited extension of the Principality of Asturias. The information on the surnames of this region, taken from the inhabitants' register, is used to identify surname regions and check correlations with dialect areas described in this space. The results obtained in this research show many similarities in the distribution of surname regions with dialect areas recognized by traditional dialectology studies. The conclusions of the study present the results obtained together with some of the explanatory proposals on the historical constitution of the linguistic diversity of this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this paper is to point out the grammatical casuistry linked to the so-called mass-neuter in Asturian common speech. It will show how, in Asturian noun morphology, neuter agreement involves the expression of different semantic categories (animacy, eventivity, distributivity, singulativeness), apart from typical mass references.

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A century ago, in the excavation of El Penicial Cave in Asturias (North Spain), Count Vega del Sella documented the first materials known to belong to the Asturian culture. That was the name for the new culture proposed by H. Obermaier in his book El Hombre Fósil (1916). Due to this German prehistorian's publications and those of authors like M. C. Burkitt, the Asturian soon became well-known internationally. This situation was especially noticeable after the 1970s, and has continued until the present time. After a hundred years of studies from different theoretical viewpoints and debates in different forums, this paper presents a critical reflection on what is known and not known about this classic European Mesolithic culture, characterised by the massive presence of shell-middens. Cultural-history and processual approaches have guided research on the Asturian. This determines the nature of our knowledge about this culture, localised in the central part of the southern coast of the Bay of Biscay. After a long debate on the Asturian chronology, doubts do not exist now regarding its post-Azilian age. However, the question of the relationship between the Asturian and Neolithic remains unresolved. The hypothesis of the continuity of the Asturian shell-middens after the sixth millennium cal BC is, for the moment, the best way to fill the information gap covering the period of 5000-4300 cal BC. Research in recent years has provided more information about the economy of these hunter-gatherer societies. However, key aspects, such as the use of wild plants are still little understood. The latest finds of lithic hunting weapons and shells used as tools open new perspectives for the study of Asturian technology. The role played by the shell-middens in their cultural context is still one of the key issues in Asturian research. Recent excavations have confirmed that there were occupations inside the middens, which at other times were mere accumulations of waste. Open-air settlements outside the caves also existed. Further research is required to understand how both realities, the middens and the nearby open-air sites, interacted. Although archaeological evidence linked to symbolic behaviour is scarce, the symbolic thought of the Asturian groups is seen in their mortuary sites, whose noticeable increase is probably related to the stable/recurrent use of the sites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Our paper aims to provide an overview of the diminutives using a spontaneous speech corpus from Pola de Siero (Asturias, Spain). This paper presents the results of the research undertaken on 24 speakers that we selected taking into account three 'basic' social variables: age, gender, and educational background. We also consider each speaker's mother tongue, occupation, social class and direct ties with the Asturian language and the consequences each may bring, among others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Spanish was classified as a language that only exploits syntactic mechanisms to mark focus. Recent experimental studies, nonetheless, have shown that speakers of different dialects are also able to use prosody to different degrees. This study aims to provide further understanding on the role played by prosody in the realization of focus in Spanish by looking at Asturian Spanish, a dialect in contact with another Romance language, Asturian. The data from a contextualized sentence completion task revealed that a phonological distinction between specific pitch categories (L+

A review of the cultural evidence from northern coastal Atlantic Spain (a.k.a., Vasco-Cantabria) spanning the late Last Glacial and early Postglacial (from Greenland Interstadial 1 to the mid-Holocene) reveals that some changes may have been related to major climate/environmental changes, while others may be attributed to demographic factors that caused possible resource overexploitation and to historical factors such as the long-term availability of Neolithic domesticates and technology in adjacent regions. The culmination of the warming trend of the Last Glacial Interstadial in the Allerød seems to have been of particular importance in the transition from the classic Upper Magdalenian (with its rupestral and portable art and complex stone and bone technologies) to the Azilian, despite continuity in the main game species and in the process of subsistence intensification. The Younger Dryas, on the other hand, seems to have had little immediate direct repercussion in this region, as the Azilian continued, straddling the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary. On the other hand, the climatically non-dramatic Preboreal-Boreal boundary seems to have seen the abrupt, marked break between the “Epimagdalenian” Azilian and the Asturian coastal shell midden Mesolithic in the western sector of the region. This contrasted with greater technological continuity (albeit with similarities to the Sauveterrian tradition in adjacent SW France) in the Mesolithic of the Basque Country, with no archeological indications that the 8.2 cal kya event had important consequences in this region. Then, some 15 centuries later, came the sudden, but centuries-delayed appearance of Neolithic domesticates and ceramics on the Atlantic side of the Cantabrian Cordillera originating from sources in the Mediterranean environments of the upper Ebro basin and/or southern France. This major lifeway change was possibly finally accepted, within a still mixed economy, in the face of the overexploitation of wild food resources. The “neolithization” of Vasco-Cantabria was finally underway by c. 6.6 cal kya, quickly leading to new human-land relationships characterized by mainly ovicaprine pastoralism, apparently limited cereal agriculture, continued foraging, recolonization of the montane interior and the construction of modest megalithic monuments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Spanish was classified as a language that only exploits syntactic mechanisms to mark focus. Recent experimental studies, nonetheless, have shown that speakers of different dialects are also able to use prosody to different degrees. This study aims to provide further understanding on the role played by prosody in the realization of focus in Spanish by looking at Asturian Spanish, a dialect in contact with another Romance language, Asturian. The data from a contextualized sentence completion task revealed that a phonological distinction between specific pitch categories (L+

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Asturian grammar distinguishes semantic references of mass and individual nouns by means of agreement with adjectives and clitics. But the morphological category of mass neuter in Asturian also develops in utterances a sophisticated specification system that goes from the expression of holistic perceptions till the accurate individualization of a referent. The contrast between some of theese uses and its equivalents in Spanish highlights some remarkable mechanisms, as those by means of which, under certain semantic or pragmatic conditions, an adjective complement achieves the expression of a contrafactual, concesive value, involving the noun object into a net of assumptions, not explicit in sentence.

A taxonomic, quantitative, and biostratigraphic analysis is presented for a macrofloral assemblage collected from below the Rock Island (No. 1) Coal Member at the historical Friendship Farm locality in Rock Island County, on the northwestern margin of the Illinois Basin. The Middle Pennsylvanian (middle Moscovian) fossiliferous strata involve the middle Tradewater Formation, and are situated a short distance below the Atokan–Desmoinesian Stage boundary as defined by marine microfossils and palynology. The assemblage of 14 fossil-taxa is overwhelmingly dominated by pteridosperms, including Laveineopteris rarinervis , Neuropteris flexuosa , Alethopteris serlii , Macroneuropteris scheuchzeri , and Mariopteris nervosa , whereas lycopsids, sphenopsids, and ferns are comparatively rare. Homotaxial comparison with the macrofloral biozonation scheme established in Europe indicates an Asturian age for the assemblage, in all likelihood early Asturian ( Linopteris obliqua Biozone). Similar comparisons with range limits documented in the Appalachian Basin yield a more ambiguous age, but an early Asturian age is equally probable. These findings indicate that the Bolsovian–Asturian Substage boundary of western Europe lies below the Atokan–Desmoinesian Stage boundary in the Illinois Basin, boundaries that have traditionally been correlated by palynology. The Middle Pennsylvanian interval near these boundaries is being increasingly recognized as one of significant environmental change, reflected in marked lithological and biological modifications throughout tropical Euramerica. However, the fact that the Bolsovian–Asturian and Atokan–Desmoinesian boundaries are not synchronous, albeit being broadly equivalent, suggests that the environmental perturbation was a protracted event that may have had global consequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The zircon age spectrum in a sample from the Canonbie Bridge Sandstone Formation (Asturian) of southern Scotland contains two main peaks. One is Early Carboniferous in age (348- 318 Ma), and corresponds to the age of igneous activity during the Variscan Orogeny. The other is of late Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian age (693-523 Ma), corresponding to the Cadomian. Together, these two groups comprise 70 % of the zircon population. The presence of these two peaks shows unequivocally that a significant proportion of the sediment was derived from the Variscides of western or central Europe. The zircon population also contains a range of older Proterozoic zircons and a small Devonian component. These could have been derived from the Variscides, but it is possible that some were locally derived through recycling of northerly derived sandstones of Devonian-Carboniferous age. The zircon age data confirm previous suggestions of Variscide sourcing to the Canonbie area, made on the basis of petrographical, heavy mineral and palaeocurrent evidence, and extend the known northward distribution of Variscan-derived Westphalian sediment in the UK. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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