Between Separation and Symbiosis

South Eastern European Languages and Cultures in Contact
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5015-2072-3
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 328 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 506 g

Reihe: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]

The book deals in detail with previously understudied language contact settings in the Balkans (South East Europe) that present a continuum between ethnic and linguistic separation and symbiosis among groups of people. The studies in this volume achieve several aims: they critically assess the Balkan Sprachbund theory; they analyse general contact theories against the background of new, original, representative field and historical Greek, Albanian, Romance, Slavic and Judesmo data; they employ and contribute to recent methods of research on linguistic convergence in bilingual societies; they propose new general assessments of extra- and intralinguistic factors of Balkanization over the centuries; and they outline prospects for future research. The factors relevant to contact scenarios and linguistic change in the Balkans are identified and typologized through models such as those related to a balanced or unbalanced (socio)linguistic situation.

Zielgruppe

Linguists interested in Language Variation and Contact, Bilingual

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sobolev, Andrey N.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit

Über Autor(innen)

Andrey N. Sobolev, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation.