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The Balkans in Seattle A Chronicle of the 18th Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature, and Folklore. University of Washington Seattle, WA, 29–31 March 2012 [PDF]

, 2012
Delić, Lidija, Ilić, Marija
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Pragmatics and contact in Macedonia: Convergence and differentiation in the Balkan Sprachbund

, 2000
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Language contact in the Balkan Sprachbund

Language Ecology, 2020
AbstractThis study investigates the meaning-form interface in the BalkanSprachbund(BS), by researching five different languages: Italian, Russian,Bulgarian, Romanian, and Greek. I consider two models that account for recurring properties of the relevant languages in theSprachbund: convergence and diglossia.
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Balkan Sprachbund aspects of Macedonian grammar

STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 2008
The multi-lingual environment on the Balkans and its intensive contact with non-Slavic languages caused Macedonian to drift away from Common Slavic more than the other Slavic languages and to share with non-Slavic Balkan languages a number of typological features, referred to as Balkan Sprachbund features.
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Lessons from Judezmo about the Balkan Sprachbund and contact linguistics

International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2014
Kristian Sandfeld explicitly excluded Judezmo from consideration in the second footnote to his classic (1930 [1926]) work Linguistique balkanique, which laid the groundwork for Balkan linguistics as a discipline offering an empirical basis for Trubetzkoy's theory of the Sprachbund.
Victor A. Friedman, Brian D. Joseph
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Macedonian discourse markers in the Balkan Sprachbund

STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 2008
This paper examines the adversative discourse markers ама and ами in Macedonian in order to shed light on the interdependence of typology and convergence. Macedonian is typically located in the center of the Balkan Sprachbund. At the same time, a comparison of these two particular discourse markers in Macedonian and Bulgarian, both Balkan Slavic ...
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Balkanizing the Balkan Sprachbund A Closer Look at Grammatical Permeability and Feature Distribution

2007
Abstract The Balkan sprachbund2 was the first area of contact-induced language change to be idented as such (Leake 1814: 380; Kopitar 1829: 86). Owing perhaps to this pedigree, it has been described as ‘the most studied’ and ‘most famous’ example of its kind, but, owing to the known antiquity and com-
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14. Copying and cognates in the Balkan Sprachbund

2012
This chapter examines four concrete cases illustrating the fact that careful attention to historical, social, and dialectological detail is all essential in investigating the copy/cognate problem. Moreover, parallel development is an equally important factor in some cases.
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5. An integrated areal-typological approach: Local convergence and morphosyntactic features in the Balkan Sprachbund

2008
The author examines some Balkan Sprachbund features that appear in neighbouring dialects of individual languages, but are absent from the other dialects of the languages to which these dialects belong; as well as some features that function in neighbouring Balkan languages of different families, but are absent from the other Balkan languages of the ...
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Balkan Sprachbund. Early evidence in Greek

2014
The Balkan Sprachbund is a well-known linguistic area largely identifiable with the Balkans, which has over the centuries been the stage of complex historico-political and social events resulting in situations of bi- or multilingualism. Consequently, Balkan languages, including Mod. Gk., share striking structural convergences – so-called ‘Balkanisms’ –
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