The Areal Structure of Three Syntagmatic Variables in the Terminology of Acadian Fishermen

Abstract

Three syntagmatic variables to be found in the word formations contained in the lobster-fishing terminology of the Acadian fishermen of Miscou and Lameque Islands, have been analysed quantitatively according to the dialectometric method which is a mathematical measurement of dialect variation in geographic space. The mathematical isogloss is the synthesis of a number of individual linguistic items. Clustering and correspondence procedures used in the analysis reveal an areal structure of the word-formations under study.