Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 496 pages) : maps (some color) |
Series |
Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 67 |
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 67.
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Contents |
Balkan Syntax and Semantics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Preface; Map of the Balkans; List of abbreviations; The Balkan Sprachbund properties; Spread of the Balkan Sprachbund morpho-syntactic properties; On the areal distribution of syntactic properties in the languages of the Balkans; The typology of Balkan evidentiality and areal linguistics; The nominal phrase; Polydefinite constructions in Modern Greek and in Aromanian; Balkan possessive clitics; Optional movement of Bulgarian possessive clitics to I; The root clause; Datives and the non-active voice |
Summary |
The book deals with some syntactic and semantic aspects of the shared Balkan Sprachbund properties. In a comprehensive introductory chapter, Tomic offers an overview of the Balkan Sprachbund properties. Sobolev, displaying the areal distribution of 65 properties, argues for dialect cartography. Friedman, on the example of the evidentials, argues for typologically informed areal explanation of the Balkan properties. The other contributions analyze specific phenomena: polidefinite DPs in Greek and Aromanian (Campos and Stavrou), Balkan constructions in which datives combine with impersonal cliti |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Language and languages -- Semantics
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Indo-europese talen.
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SUBJECT |
Balkan Peninsula -- Languages -- Syntax
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Balkan Peninsula -- Languages -- Semantics
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Subject |
Balkan Peninsula
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Tomić, Olga Mišeska.
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ISBN |
9789027295392 |
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9027295395 |
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902722790X |
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9789027227904 |
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158811502X |
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9781588115027 |
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1282160389 |
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9781282160385 |
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9786612160387 |
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6612160381 |
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