Balkan Syntax and (Universal) Principles of Grammar / / ed. by Brian Joseph, Iliyana Krapova.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Aranovich, Raúl,; Asenova, Petya,; Baunaz, Lena,; Bužarovska, Eleni,; Bîlbîie, Gabriela,; Cinque, Guglielmo,; Friedman, Victor A.,; Joseph, Brian D.,; Kallulli, Dalina,; Krapova, Iliyana,; Lander, Eric,; Lindstedt, Jouko,; Mardale, Alexandru,; Mitkovska, Liljana,; Sims, Andrea D.,; Sobolev, Andrey N.,; Sočanac, Tomislav,
• HerausgeberIn: Joseph, Brian,; Krapova, Iliyana,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 285
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 343 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction – Morpho-Syntactic Convergences and Current Linguistic Theory --; Part I: Contact Phenomena, Causes and Types of Explanations --; Balkan Syntax: Typological and Diachronic Aspects --; Parallel Universes and Universal Parallels: Balkan Romani Evidential Strategies --; Areal Typology and Balkan (Morpho-)Syntax --; Diachronic Regularities Explaining the Tendency towards Explicit Analytic Marking in Balkan Syntax --; Part II: Balkan Syntax and Universal Principles of Grammar --; Impersonal reflexives in Romance and Slavic: Contact effects in the Balkans --; Morphology versus Syntax in the Balkan Verbal Complex --; Universal Constraints on Balkanisms. A Case Study: The absence of Clitic Climbing --; Balkan Clitic Doubling Revisited: Micro-Variation, Typological Generalizations, and a True Universal --; Cross-categorial Syncretism and Containment in Balkan and Slavic --; Part III: Variation in the Sprachbund --; Modal habere-Constructions in the Balkan Slavic Context --; The Romanian subjunctive from a Balkan perspective --; Subjunctive complements in Balkan languages: Problems of distribution --; Language Index --; Subject Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110375930; 9783110762464; 9783110719567; 9783110742978; 9783110604252; 9783110603255; 9783110604078; 9783110603170
• ISSN: 1861-4302
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110375930
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Brian Joseph, Iliyana Krapova.

This book investigates morpho-syntactic convergences that characterize the languages of the Balkan Sprachbund: Balkan Slavic, Greek, Romanian, Albanian, Balkan Romani. Apart from new data, the volume features contributions within different theoretical frameworks (contact linguistics, functional linguistics, typology, areal linguistics, and generative grammar).