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The Balkan Languages and Balkan Linguistics [PDF]

open access: yesAnnual Review of Anthropology, 2011
The Balkans were the first linguistic area (sprachbund) to be identified as such. The concept was originally proposed to explain diffusion among languages that were genealogically unrelated or distantly related in terms of normal linguistic change as opposed to notions of corruption and impurity. The fact that the sprachbund cannot be as neatly bounded
VÍCTOR A Friedman
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Serbian-Albanian language contacts and two types of phonological systems in the Balkan languages [PDF]

open access: yesBalcanica, 2003
Phonological systems of the Balkan languages do not correspond to the Balkan language union borders, which can be explained by the difference between "intensive" (morphosyntactic) and "extensive" (phonological) language unions.
Vanja Stanisic   +2 more
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Subjunctive complements in Balkan languages: Problems of distribution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper deals with the subject of Balkan subjunctive mood (BlkS), specifically the distribution of subjunctive complements across different Balkan languages (e.g. Greek, Romanian, Bulgarian).
Tomislav Sočanac, Socanac, T
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Object doubling in Romani and the Balkan languages

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 1997
Bubenik Vit
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Languages of the Balkans

2017
The Balkan languages were the first group of languages whose similarities were explained in modern linguistic terms as a result of language contact rather than as a result of descent from a common ancestor. Nikolai Trubetzkoy coined the term Sprachbund ‘linguistic league’ (as opposed to Sprachfamilie ‘language family’) to describe this relationship ...
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Language contact in the Balkan Sprachbund

Language Ecology, 2020
AbstractThis study investigates the meaning-form interface in the BalkanSprachbund(BS), by researching five different languages: Italian, Russian,Bulgarian, Romanian, and Greek. I consider two models that account for recurring properties of the relevant languages in theSprachbund: convergence and diglossia.
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