Between Separation and Symbiosis - South Eastern European Languages and Cultures in Contact

The book deals in detail with previously understudied language contact settings in the Balkans (South East Europe) that present a continuum between ethnic and linguistic separation and symbiosis among groups of people. The studies in this volume achieve several aims: they critically assess the Balkan Sprachbund theory; they analyse general contact theories against the background of new, original, representative field and historical Greek, Albanian, Romance, Slavic and Judesmo data; they employ and contribute to recent methods of research on linguistic convergence in bilingual societies; they propose new general assessments of extra- and intralinguistic factors of Balkanization over the centuries; and they outline prospects for future research. The factors relevant to contact scenarios and linguistic change in the Balkans are identified and typologized through models such as those related to a balanced or unbalanced (socio)linguistic situation.

About the author

Andrey N. Sobolev, Institute for Linguistic Research, Russian Academy of Sciences; St. Petersburg State University;

Philipps-Universitaet Marburg

Product details

• Assisted by: Andrey N Sobolev (Editor), Andrey N. Sobolev (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.2022
• EAN: 9781501520723
• ISBN: 978-1-5015-2072-3
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 31 mm x 239 mm
• Weight: 836 g
• Illustrations: 2 b/w and 1 col. ill., 150 b/w tbl.
• Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]; Language Contact and Bilingual; ISSN; Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB], 20
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics