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Assumpció Rost Bagudanch
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Madrid, España
Barcelona, España
Linguistic atlases’ data are an essential source for the diachronic study of languages. The digitization of these materials and their online publication (as traditional geolinguistic maps and diverse databases) are a valuable complement to textual, oral and lexicographic corpora. In fact, they all permit the development of research on language evolution. In this sense, the Corpus of Linguistic Atlases (CORPAT) is designed to complement other linguistic tools for the study of linguistic variation and to offer data of Oral European Spanish, which has been collected throughout the 20th century. CORPAT includes information from nine regional linguistic atlases (ALEA, ALEICan, ALEANR, ALECant, ALCyL, ALeCMan, ADiM, ALBi, CaLiEx). The present paper aims to demonstrate some of the potential contributions of this corpus to the historical study of Spanish from two different perspectives: sound change (more specifically, the case of yeísmo) and lexical semantic change (in particular, the study of designations of the concept ‘to be pregnant’). The use of CORPAT allows to illustrate their evolution in the geographic space, and the results show that the study of these dialectal linguistic materials can help to contextualize variation phenomena and to describe and explain language change processes more accurately.
