Language Contact in the Balkans

Handbook of Language Contact

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 618-633

  Joseph, Brian D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

"intimate" borrowing, two languages spoken in what is topographically and politically a single community; A sprachbund Balkan sprachbund, defined as a cluster of such clusters; Assessing the Sprachbund localized versus broadly realized convergence; Causes of convergence in the Balkans; clusters of convergent languages; Convergent features themselves Balkanisms; Language contact in Balkans; Languages and their convergent character the "Sprachbund"; Local dialects, focus for study of language contact

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EID: 84885500813     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318159.ch30     Document Type: Chapter

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