Balkan Slavic and Balkan Romance: From Congruence to Convergence

Jouko Lindstedt

doi:10.1515/9783110338454.168

Balkan Slavic and Balkan Romance: From Congruence to Convergence

Jouko Lindstedt

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Abstract

Proto-Slavic and Balkan Latin/Romance came into intense contact in the Balkans after the Slavs spread to the peninsula from the 6th century CE onwards. Originally, Proto-Slavic and Latin possessed fairly similar grammatical structures of the Indo-European synthetic type, but instead of simply reinforcing this similarity, both languages became subject to changes that made them members of the developing Balkan Sprachbund, or the Balkan linguistic area. In this paper I shall compare their roles in the formation of this area and discuss their possible mutual structural interference. The Balkan system of definite articles will be used as the main illustrative material.

Although the Balkan Sprachbund did not come into being by borrowing from a single source language, different languages contributed variously to the system of Balkan enclitic articles, and the roles of Albanian and Balkan Romance were greater than that of Balkan Slavic. Explanations for the different roles of the Balkan languages in the Sprachbund formation should be sought in social history rather than in structural factors.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Congruence in Contact-Induced Language Change : Language Families, Typological Resemblance, and Perceived Similarity
Editors	Juliane Besters-Dilger, Cynthia Dermarkar, Stefan Pfänder, Achim Rabus
Number of pages	16
Place of Publication	Berlin/Boston
Publisher	de Gruyter
Publication date	2014
Pages	168-183
ISBN (Print)	978-3-11-033834-8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-11-033845-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110338454.168
Publication status	Published - 2014
MoE publication type	A3 Book chapter

Publication series

Name	Linguae & Litterae
Publisher	de Gruyter

Fields of Science

6121 Languages
Balkan languages
Balkan Slavic
Balkan Slavonic
Balkan Romance
Bulgarian
Macedonian
Romanian
Language contacts
Contact linguistics
Areal linguistics
Language convergence

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10.1515/9783110338454.168

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Balkan Slavic and Balkan Romance: From Congruence to Convergence. / Lindstedt, Jouko.
Congruence in Contact-Induced Language Change: Language Families, Typological Resemblance, and Perceived Similarity. ed. / Juliane Besters-Dilger; Cynthia Dermarkar; Stefan Pfänder; Achim Rabus. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2014. p. 168-183 (Linguae & Litterae).

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