Balkan Syntax and (Universal) Principles of Grammar /

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

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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 ling...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 343 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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