Grzegorz Jagodzinski wrote:
>> And, have dialectologists problems with counting each
>> single dialect as French, Occitan aka Provençal,
>> Catalonian, Spanish or Italian?
>
> What about the Franco-Provençal dialects?
There are really no problems with Arpitan but what do you say about
Gallo-Italian: is that (or those) Italian or Gallo-Romance or something on
its own? And what about Venete, Corsican, North Sardinian (both Gallurese
and Sassarese)?
And coming back to Slavic, what about Central and East Polissian in SE.
Belarus and NE. Ukraine, and where is border between Russian and Belorusan?
Then, Torlak dialects, are they Serbian or Bulgaro-Macedonian? Structurally,
I mean. Or Kajkavian, is it closer to the rest Serbo-Croatian or Slovenian?
And considering Anatolian: why we treat them as a single group if they are
polyphyletic? Are there certain isoglosses to unite them all or may be it
would be better say about two (or more?) different branches of IE just close
areally?
Yuri