Between Separation and Symbiosis

South Eastern European Languages and Cultures in Contact

328 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]
• ISBN: 9781501516641
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.06.2021
• Genre: Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
• Verlag: de Gruyter Mouton
• Herausgegeben von: Andrey N. Sobolev