This article explores the potential role of attitudes as motivating factors in language variation and change. This study represents an important departure from existing scholarship through its consideration of quantitative measures of language attitudes as factors in multivariate analyses of linguistic data. Four morphosyntactic variables in Northern Catalan (an obsolescent variety spoken in France) will be examined in order to determine which factors significantly correlate with use of local or supralocal variants. Linear regression modelling reveals firm correlations for two of the variables, wherein positive evaluations of Catalan varieties on the status dimension (cf. Carranza & Ryan, 1975; Woolard, 1989, inter alia) align with supralocal variant use. We will see that attitudes can be helpful in uncovering motivations for language variation, but that qualitative ideological data are indispensable in the interpretation of findings.

中文翻译：

---

语言态度作为形态句法变异的预测因子：来自法国南部加泰罗尼亚语使用者的证据

本文探讨了态度作为语言变化和变化的激励因素的潜在作用。这项研究通过考虑对语言态度的定量测量作为语言数据多元分析中的因素，代表了与现有学术的重大偏离。为了确定哪些因素与使用本地或超本地变体显着相关，将对北加泰罗尼亚语（法国所说的过时变体）中的四个形态句法变量进行检查。线性回归模型揭示了两个变量的牢固相关性，其中加泰罗尼亚品种在状态维度上的积极评价（参见Carranza＆Ryan，1975； Woolard，1989，等等）与超地方变量的使用保持一致。