Domergue Sumien (in Occitan ''Domergue Sumien'', in French ''Dominique Sumien''; born July 5, 1968, in

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linguist and writer. He is a member of the Occitan Language Council. He used to work in the International Association for Occitan Studies (AIEO). Sumien is working towards the improvement of a standard written Occitan, named „broad Occitan“ (''occitan larg'') as initially defined by

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, Robèrt Lafont, and . As a member of the Occitan Language Council, he co-wrote a new set of recommendations for the orthography of standard Occitan. In his PhD thesis, he enlarged his vision of a standard language and he also proposed to define some regional standards as he presents Occitan as a

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.See another review by Aitor Carrera in ''Llengua i ús: revista tècnica de política lingüística'', 2008, Núm. 42, p. 83-91, https://raco.cat/index.php/LlenguaUs/article/view/128337.

Selected works

* 2012: “Occitan: harmonizing non-dominant standards throughout four states”, in: Rudolf MUHR (ed.) (2012): ''Non-dominant varieties of pluricentric languages. Getting the picture (in memory of Michael Clyne)'', coll. Österreichisches Deutsch Sprache der Gegenwart 14, Frankfurt/Berlin/Bruxelles/New York/Oxford/Wien: Peter Lang, pp. 263–282 * 2011: collaborador a l'edicion d'Angelica RIEGER (ed.) (2001) ''L’Occitanie invitée de l’Euregio. Liège 1981 - Aix-la-Chapelle 2008 : Bilan et perspectives — Actes du Neuvième Congrès de l’Association Internationale d’Études Occitanes'' * 2009: “Classificacion dei dialèctes occitans”, ''Lingüistica occitana'' 7 * 2009: “Comment rendre l’occitan disponible? Pédagogie et diglossie dans les écoles Calandretas”, in: SAUZET Patrick, & PIC François (dir.) (2009), ''Politique linguistique et enseignement des “langues de France”, Paris: L’Harmattan, pp. 67-86 * 2009: “L’estandardizacion deu gascon: l’ensenhament, la koinè e lo diasistèma”, in: LATRY Guy (2009) (ed.) ''La Voix occitane, actes du VIIIe Congrès de l’Association internationale d’études occitanes'', Bordeaux, 2005, Pessac : Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, t. II / pp. 837-850 * 2007: “Lo ròtle de la lexicografia dins la planificacion lingüistica”, ''Linguistica Occitana'' 5 * 2007: “Besonhs e amiras de la sociolingüistica aplicada en Occitània”, in ''Anàlisi del discurs sociolingüístic català i occità, amb motiu del 60è anniversari de Georg Kremnitz'', Wien: Praesens Verlag, pp. 181-200 * 2007: ''Preconizacions del Conselh de la Lenga Occitana'', ''Lingüistica Occitana'' 6 * 2006: ''La standardisation pluricentrique de l’occitan. Nouvel enjeu sociolinguistique, développement du lexique et de la morphologie'', coll. Publications de l’Association Internationale d’Études Occitanes, Turnhout: Brepols * 2006: en collaboration avec Santiago MARTÍNEZ ARRIETA: “Els lligams entre català i occità: alguns problemes de representació, descripció i estandardització”, in: ''Miscel·lània Joan Veny'', vol. 8, Montserrat: Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat * 2005: “La terminologia informatica en occitan: la revirada dels logicials OpenOffice e Spip”, ''Linguistica Occitana'' 3 * 2003: “L’occitan, lenga fantasmada: l’exemple de la toponimia”, in: LIEUTARD Hervé, & VERNY Marie-Jeanne, (2003) (ed.) ''Nouvelle recherche en domaine occitan: actes du colloque Jeunes chercheurs ReDòc (UMR 5475), avril 2002'', coll. Lo Gat Negre, Montpellier: ReDòc-CEO-Université Paul Valéry, pp. 129-147. * 2000: “La question de la h dens los noms pròpris estrangèrs”, ''Reclams'' 777: pp. 15–16.

References

External links

Domergue Sumien in Google Scholar

Domergue Sumien's weekly papers in ''Jornalet''

Occitan Language Council / Conselh de la Lenga Occitana
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