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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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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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Lingue slave e balcaniche fra Sprachbund e contatti linguistici: aspetti metodologici [PDF]
The paper is a state-of-the-art presentation of Balkan linguistics and offers a discussion of some potential directions for its future development, such as the need for a careful investigation of the micro-parametric variation with respect to those ...
KRAPOVA I.T.
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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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Romance languages and the others: In and around the Balkans [PDF]
The languages of the Balkans are a rich source of data on contact-induced language change. The result of a centuries long process of lexical and structural convergence as been referred to as a ‘sprachbund’. While widely applied, this notion has, however,
Gardani, Francesco +2 more
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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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Europe: So Many Languages, So Many Cultures [PDF]
The number of different languages in Europe by far exceeds the number of countries. All European countries have national languages, and in nearly all of them there are minority languages as well, whereas all major languages have dialects.
Steinhauer, H. (Hein)
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Afrikaans as Standaard Gemiddelde Europees:Wanneer ‘n lid uit sy taalarea beweeg [PDF]
A recent trend in the study of Standard Average European is the extraterritorial perspective of examining the extent to which non-European languages have converged with this Sprachbund as a result of contact with one or more of its members.
Adri Breed +41 more
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