SPPT Grad Student James Ramsburg is Awarded the Doctoral Scholarship In Catalan Studies from the Institut Ramon Llull and the North American Catalan Society

His dissertation project, Negotiating language change at the periphery: Language contact and the maintenance of the Majorcan Catalan lexicon, seeks to provide a comprehensive, contemporary account of the state of the Majorcan Catalan lexicon, with an emphasis on the lexical choices of the island’s youth. The ultimate goal is to determine the degree of lexical maintenance and/or shift among Majorca’s Catalan-speaking youth, identify the principal linguistic and social factors that govern these processes, and provide linguistic authorities with relevant, data-driven policy recommendations for the protection of the dialect.

Congrats James!