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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 285Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (VI, 343 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110375831
  • 9783110393378
  • 9783110375930
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 400 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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).
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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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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).

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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