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Romance languages and the others: In and around the Balkans

Gardani, Francesco; Loporcaro, Michele; Giudici, Alberto (2021). Romance languages and the others: In and around the Balkans. In: Gardani, Francesco; Loporcaro, Michele; Giudici, Alberto. Journal of Language Contact. Leiden: Brill, 1-23.

Abstract

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, increasingly been questioned with respect to its usefulness. Addressing the linguistic makeup of the Balkan languages, the notion of sprachbund is critically assessed. It is shown that a) the Balkan languages and the Balkan linguistic exclaves (Albanian and Greek spoken on the Italian peninsula) share similar contact-induced phenomena, and b) the principal processes underlying the development of the Balkan languages are borrowing and reanalysis, two fundamental and general mechanisms of language change.

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Item Type:Book Section, not_refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Romance Studies
08 Research Priority Programs > Language and Space
Dewey Decimal Classification:800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism
470 Latin & Italic languages
410 Linguistics
440 French & related languages
460 Spanish & Portuguese languages
450 Italian, Romanian & related languages
Language:English
Date:30 September 2021
Deposited On:03 Feb 2022 11:10
Last Modified:03 Feb 2022 11:10
Publisher:Brill
ISBN:1877-4091
OA Status:Green
Related URLs:https://brill.com/view/journals/jlc/14/1/article-p1_1.xml?language=en (Publisher)
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