The atlas of the Balkan linguistic area program [PDF]
This article presents the Atlas of the Balkan Linguistic Area (ABLA), a French- Russian research program that created an online database of language contact phenomena documented in the languages of the Balkans.
Adamou Evangelia, Sobolev Andrey N.
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Yugoslavia is dead: long live the Yugosphere good news from the Western Balkans [PDF]
This paper by Tim Judah, a journalist and writer who has covered the former Yugoslavia and the Balkans for many years and whose knowledge of the region is second to none, is the first in the LSEE Papers series.
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The Agencies of the European Union: A Glimmer of Hope for Enlargement?
Abstract In recent years, the process of EU enlargement has become increasingly difficult. The longer the process drags on and the less likely accession appears, the more the candidate states are discouraged and the less influential the EU becomes. A different approach to integration must therefore be used.
Matis Poussardin
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Nationalism in the Balkan Countries and Education of Macedonians (1913-1945)
After Macedonia’s division following the Balkan wars between Serbia, Greece and Bulgaria, a planned action was launched to denationalise the Macedonian nation and assimilate it with Balkan states.
Silvana Sidorovska‑Čupovska
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Scrutinising Frontex: The European Parliament and Accountability through Discharge
Abstract This article examines how the European Parliament (EP) has leveraged the budgetary discharge procedure to enhance the political accountability of the EU's Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex. Whilst the procedure is formally limited to budget implementation, the EP has used it as an accountability tool that goes far beyond financial ...
Magnus G. Schoeller, Peter Slominski
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A typology of subjunctive complements in Balkan languages
This paper proposes a comparative approach to the subjunctive complements to verbs and nouns in two language groups: Romance Balkan (i.e. Standard Romanian, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian) and Slavic Balkan (mostly Serbian, Croatian, and Macedonian).
Virginia Hill, Olga Mišeska-Tomić
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„FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS?” DEATH AND DYING-RELATED LANGUAGE/ VOCABULARY. LINGUISTIC BOUNDARIES IN ALBANIAN AND ROMANIAN [PDF]
Balkan languages entail many euphemisms regarding death and funeral rituals. This paper focuses on the comparative study of Romanian and Albanian euphemisms, emphasizing their often use in similar contexts and at the same time their semantic differences.
Dr. Benita STAVRE +2 more
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Comparison of Eurovision Song Contest simulation with actual results reveals shifting patterns of collusive voting alliances. [PDF]
The voting patterns in the Eurovision Song Contest have attracted attention from various researchers, spawning a small cross-disciplinary field of what might be called 'eurovisiopsephology' incorporating insights from politics, sociology and computer ...
Gatherer, D.
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The Meritorious ‘Other’: The Interconnection of Merit and Race in EU Migration and Asylum Law
Abstract Adopting a law‐in‐context approach, this article suggests that merit‐based migrant selection in the European Union (EU) is implicitly shaped by racial dynamics. With a focus on EU law and more specifically on cases from the Netherlands and Germany, it argues that the growing emphasis on merit enables a limited number of ‘racialised others’ to ...
Sarah Ganty +3 more
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Large Language Models for Toxic Language Detection in Low-Resource Balkan Languages
Online toxic language causes real harm, especially in regions with limited moderation tools. In this study, we evaluate how large language models handle toxic comments in Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian, languages with limited labeled data. We built and manually labeled a dataset of 4,500 YouTube and TikTok comments drawn from videos across diverse ...
Muminovic, Amel, Muminovic, Amela Kadric
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