Balkan Sprachbund Morpho-Syntactic FeaturesSpringer Science & Business Media, 2006 M09 13 - 750 pages At the end of 1998, Professor Pieter Muysken was awarded the Spinoza prize of the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NOW) and set up a research program entitled “Lexicon and Syntax”. The implementation of the Program started in the autumn of 1999 with research on the lexicon and syntax in a number of areas where contacts between 1 different languages are intensive. For the languages of many of the areas selected, basic data had to be collected. For most of the languages of the Balkan Sprachbund area, however, there are grammars and dictionaries. Moreover, quite a number of studies of the Balkan Spra- bund features have been published. Accordingly, when I joined the team of the Project, I aimed at a description of the state of art in the field. After several months of research, I realized that Balkanists have mainly been concerned with compiling lists of similarities and making parallels between the lexical and grammatical forms of the Balkan languages, while analyses of the interaction of the Balkan Sprachbund morpho-syntactic features with other features in the structure of the DP or the sentence of a given language/dialect are scarce. This oriented me towards descriptions of Balkan Spra- bund morpho-syntactic features in the context of individual sub-systems in nine Balkan language to which they relate – the Slavic languages Macedonian, Bulgarian and Serbo-C- atian; the Romance languages Romanian, Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian; Albanian; Modern Greek; and the Arli Balkan Romani dialect. |
Contents
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How did the Balkan Sprachbund features develop? | 27 |
Chapter | 35 |
The Balkan Slavic languages | 42 |
Chapter Three | 49 |
Vocative case forms Accusative case forms Articles Personal pronouns Possessive clitics and nonclitic pronominal possessive modifiers Use of preposi... | 86 |
SerboCroatian 108 | 108 |
Romanian 125 | 125 |
SerboCroatian | 361 |
Romanian | 369 |
MeglenoRomanian | 376 |
Aromanian | 383 |
Northern Geg Albanian | 397 |
Arli Balkan Romani | 407 |
Infinitives and Subjunctives 1 Macedonian | 416 |
Bulgarian | 456 |
MeglenoRomanian | 152 |
Aromanian | 167 |
Albanian | 186 |
Modern Greek | 203 |
Arli Balkan Romani | 222 |
Pronominal possessive modifiers | 233 |
Macedonian | 242 |
Bulgarian | 259 |
Conditions for cliticdoubling of lexical nominals | 265 |
SerboCroatian | 271 |
Romanian | 279 |
MeglenoRomanian | 292 |
Aromanian | 299 |
Albanian | 307 |
Modern Greek | 315 |
Arli Balkan Romani | 329 |
Macedonian | 336 |
Bulgarian | 351 |
Subjunctive constructions as nominal modifiers or as adjuncts | 470 |
Subjunctive constructions as complements of auxiliary modals476 | 476 |
Conditional sentences | 482 |
SerboCroatian | 484 |
Romanians511 | 511 |
MeglenoRomanian | 540 |
Aromanian | 558 |
Albanian | 581 |
Geg Albanian | 609 |
Arli Balkan Romani | 636 |
Appendix | 657 |
Appendix | 683 |
Appendix Three | 697 |
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Common terms and phrases
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