This article presents the development of Catalan grammar codification by highlighting its diatopic and diaphasic variation and how this is considered in the two official normative grammars (1918/1933 and 2016). The shift from a monocentric approach to a pluricentric one is also demonstrated by means of other parallel attempts at codification that have contributed to constructing Catalan’s so-called polymorphism. Two divergent or secessionist attempts at standardization are taken into account in order ...
This article presents the development of Catalan grammar codification by highlighting its diatopic and diaphasic variation and how this is considered in the two official normative grammars (1918/1933 and 2016). The shift from a monocentric approach to a pluricentric one is also demonstrated by means of other parallel attempts at codification that have contributed to constructing Catalan’s so-called polymorphism. Two divergent or secessionist attempts at standardization are taken into account in order to demonstrate the centrifugal as well as centripetal tendencies. The Catalan article system (definite, personal and neuter articles) is a useful example for examining the approach of each of the grammar books with regard to the distribution of the diatopic and diaphasic variation. It remains to be seen whether the pluricentric standardization and a balanced polymorphism will prevail in the future.
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