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Sociolinguistic Typology Meets Historical Corpus Linguistics

open access: yesTransactions 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
wiley   +1 more source

Initial and non-initial clusters of a nasal sonant and homorganic stop in the Balkan languages [PDF]

open access: yesJužnoslovenski 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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Superlative Morphology from Syntax: Slavic Nai‐/Naj‐ and Internal Definiteness Marking in Old Lithuanian

open access: yesTransactions 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Balkan sprachbund in typological-geographical space

open access: yesТруды Института лингвистических исследований, 2020
exaly   +2 more sources

Bulgarian Anthroponym as a (Balkan) Text

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Current dialectological research in Serbian linguistics and language contact issues [PDF]

open access: yesJužnoslovenski Filolog, 2009
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
doaj   +1 more source

Some Tendencies in the Morphosyntax of the Migrational Shtokavian Dialects in Albania (Shijak and Myzeqe) and Slavic-Albanian Language Contact

open access: yesСлавянский мир в третьем тысячелетии, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Некоторые контактнообусловленные явления в словенском диалекте долины Натизоне

open access: yesSlavia Meridionalis, 2021
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]
doaj   +1 more source

The Diachrony of Subjunctive-Infinitive Competition in Balkan Slavic: Typological vs. Sprachbund Phenomena [PDF]

open access: yesBalcania et Slavia, 2023
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.
openaire   +4 more sources

Macedonian Language from the Perspective of its Balkan Environment (Language Tendencies)

open access: yesColloquia Humanistica, 2015
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`
doaj   +1 more source

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