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Sociolinguistic Typology Meets Historical Corpus Linguistics
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]
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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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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The Balkan sprachbund in typological-geographical space
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Bulgarian Anthroponym as a (Balkan) Text
This article considers a proper name as a text: as a linguistic, semiotic, sociocultural, and ethnographic ‘narrative.’ The author assumes that the anthroponymic space in modern Bulgaria is a live environment which is permanently developing and ...
Irina A. Sedakova
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Current dialectological research in Serbian linguistics and language contact issues [PDF]
Examined in this paper is the attitude of current Serbian dialectology towards phenomena that are the subject matter of contact linguistics. The aim of the study is to show which types of contact situations and their outcomes are investigated by ...
Vučković Marija
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This article puts into academic circulation the materials of the little-described migrational Shtokavian dialects in the Shijak (Durrës) and Myzeqe (Fier, the villages of Rreth Libofsha, Hamil, etc.) areas collected during a linguistic expedition in July
Maxim Makartsev, Natalia Kikilo
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Некоторые контактнообусловленные явления в словенском диалекте долины Натизоне
Some Contact-related Phenomena in the Slovenian Dialect of the Natisone Valley The paper discusses some contact-related phenomena in the phonetics, morphology and syntax of the Slovene dialect that is spoken in the Natisone Valley in Italy, a dialect ...
Глеб [Gleb] Пилипенко [Pilipenko]
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The Diachrony of Subjunctive-Infinitive Competition in Balkan Slavic: Typological vs. Sprachbund Phenomena [PDF]
The paper analyses the phenomenon of infinitive loss in Balkan Slavic in the context of the broader cross-linguistic process of subjunctive-infinitive competition (SIC). I adopt a diachronic perspective, analysing the historical developments pertaining to SIC in languages ranging from Old Church Slavonic to present-day Bulgarian and Serbian.
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Macedonian Language from the Perspective of its Balkan Environment (Language Tendencies)
Macedonian Language from the Perspective of its Balkan Environment (Language Tendencies) In the past fifteen years, Macedonian standard language and its dialects have been subject to various changes effected for the purpose of establishing clearer and ...
Marjan Markovik`
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