Between Separation and Symbiosis : : South Eastern European Languages and Cultures in Contact / / ed. by Andrey N. Sobolev.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Joseph, Brian D.,; Kisilier, Maxim L.,; Konior, Daria V.,; Kozak, Vyacheslav V.,; Makarova, Anastasia L.,; Morozova, Maria S.,; Rusakov, Alexander Yu.,; Sobolev, Andrey N.,
• HerausgeberIn: Sobolev, Andrey N.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] , 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 328 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Editor’s Preface -- Contents -- Contemporary Language Contacts in the Balkans: Situations and Outcomes -- Separation and Symbiosis between Slavs and Albanians as Continuum of Linguistic Contact Situations: New Challenges for New Data -- Mutual Understanding among Albanians, Slavs and Aromanians in Prespa, North Macedonia: Perfect Tense as a Perfect Tool -- “Balanced Language Contact” in Social Context: Velja Gorana in Southern Montenegro -- Symbiosis Suspectus: Palasa in Himara, Albania -- Minority within a Minority: Iabalcea and Carașova in Romania -- Evidence for Past Coexistence: Romance Stratum in Croatian Glagolitic Sources from Krk, Croatia -- Reconstructing Past Coexistence: Problems and Mysteries in the Multilingual History of Tsakonia, Greece -- Convergence and Failure to Converge in Relative Social Isolation: Balkan Judezmo -- Balkan Sprachbund Theory as a Research Paradigm -- Abbreviations -- Index of names -- Index of places -- Authors’ profiles