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Introduction: Balkan Romance Within the Balkan Sprachbund
LanguagesThis article provides a short introduction to Balkan Romance, examining and exemplifying a number of its principal features. In particular, the discussion begins in §2 with a review of the main morphosyntactic features of the four principal sub-branches ...
Virginia Hill, Adam Ledgeway
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Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2022 The article discusses the reflection of the features of the own — alien dichotomy in the Balkan model of the world in the xenologic pejorative vocabulary of the Balkan sprachbund languages: Albanian, Aromanian, Bulgarian, Modern Greek, Macedonian ...
E. V. Romanin
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Colloquia Humanistica, 2015 The Balkan Sprachbund in the Republic of Macedonia Today: “Eurology” as Discontinuity and Dialectology as Continuity In the article, I attempt to uphold the thesis about the continuity of the processes which gave rise to the phenomenon of the Balkan ...
Victor Friedman
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Some thoughts on the Slavic verbal system (a typological approach) [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2021 This paper deals with the essential verb categories - the grammatical categories of tense, aspect and mode, as well as with actionality as a lexical and functional category.
Kretschmer Anna
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Kilka uwag o fonetyce ligi bałkańskiej
Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Linguistica, 2023 The focus of this article is the origins of (1) reduced vowels in languages of the Balkan Sprachbund, (2) lenition of soft stops, (3) its (pre)nasalization, (4) the change of ninto rin the Tosk dialect of Albanian and a similar process in Old Romanian ...
Leszek Bednarczuk
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On some neglected balkanisms in the Serbian verbal systems [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2008 The author finds that one of the most prominent features of the so-called Balkan Sprachbund is the extended system of grammaticalized modal distinctions both in the episthemic and deontic functional zone. She then focuses on two tendencies characteristic
Topolińska Zuzanna
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Languages, 2023 This paper aims to (i) establish the micro-parametric variation in the development of the subjunctive CP in Romanian languages (Daco-Romanian/DR; Aromanian/AR; Megleno-Romanian/MR; Istro-Romanian/IR) and (ii) account for derivations in which the ...
Gabriela Alboiu, Virginia Hill
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Sociolinguistic Typology Meets Historical Corpus Linguistics
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 546-567, November 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper makes the case for using historical corpora to assess questions of sociolinguistic typology. A full account of any contact‐induced change will need to establish what the linguistic innovation in question was, who was in contact, where and when the contact took place and how the change happened, both at the individual level and at ...
George Walkden +5 more
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Initial and non-initial clusters of a nasal sonant and homorganic stop in the Balkan languages [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2005 The Balkan Sprachbund is a linguistic community which is defined by morph syntactic features. However it also has some phonetic peculiarities of which the most specifies ones are: 1. traces of the occurrence in all "proper" Balkan languages of the common
Sawicka Irena
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 120, Issue 1, Page 103-127, March 2022., 2022 Abstract It has long been noticed that the Slavic superlative prefix nai‐/naj‐ comprises two components: *na + *i. The former can be identified with the preposition Sl na ‘on(to)’ which developed an intensifying meaning when used as a prefix. The origin of the second component, on the other hand, has not been determined satisfactorily so far.
Florian Wandl
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