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Introduction: Balkan Romance Within the Balkan Sprachbund
This 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 ...
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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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The issue of the postpositional article in Balkan sprachbund and the case of Istro-Romanian
This paper aims to investigate the origin, development, and usage of the postpositional articles in Istro-Romanian, one of the Romanian historical dialects, a likewise dislocated member of the Balkan sprachbund. First, based on the available literature, the evolution of the postpositional articles in the Romance languages will be demonstrated, followed
Mirna Bicanic
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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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The Eastern Romance Languages as Members of the Balkan Sprachbund
The purpose of the present article is to compare four Eastern Romance languages, namely Daco-Romanian, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian, in terms of their morphological and syntactical features typical for the Balkan Sprachbund. The twelve features listed in the work by Jouko Lindstedt (2000) are examined.
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Some thoughts on the Slavic verbal system (a typological approach) [PDF]
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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THE BALKAN SPECTRUM OF COLOR TERMS AMONG THE AROMANIANS (ETHNO-LINGUISTIC ASPECT) [PDF]
In June 2022, an ethnolinguistic expedition to the regions of Bitola and Krushevo (North Macedonia) took place. The study of the archaic phenomena of the traditional folk culture of the Aromanians living in this area was the main goal of the field ...
Alexandra CHIVARZINA
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Kilka uwag o fonetyce ligi bałkańskiej
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]
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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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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