Geolinguistics of the 1pl and 2pl pronouns in the Romance languages of the 20th century

Abstract

The different Romance languages inherited from Latin the stressed pronouns nos and vos of

1pl and 2pl, respectively. However, the emergence of the compound forms nos alteros vos

alteros throughout the western and central Romania approximately in the 13th century triggered

the replacement of the simple forms by the compound ones in certain varieties, the

coexistence of both strategies in some, or their disappearance in others. With the aim to map

these realities in the 20th century and provide a linguistic explanation, I will show the results

from the dialect atlases AIS, ALF and ALPI