Titolo della tesi: Central Scandinavian dialectography from a diachronic perspective
The aim of the present dissertation is to analyse and contextualise the shared
phonological features of several varieties spoken across the Norwegian-Swedish border,
arguing for the existence of a Central Scandinavian dialect group. Such group appears to
be characterised by the partial participation to innovations that are typical of either
Western or Eastern Scandinavian, by the presence of independent innovations and by a
set of conservative features. More precisely, the varieties of interest are spoken in part of
the counties of Trøndelag and Innlandet in Norway and Jämtland, Härjedalen and Dalarna
in Sweden, where field investigations have been conducted via the administration of
questionnaires and the recording of interviews. The collected data is then compared to
older recordings and transcriptions retrieved via archival research, thus providing
diachronic depth to the study.