Balkan Sprachbund Morpho-Syntactic Features

• Main Author: Tomić, Olga Mišeska (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 67
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Comparative linguistics.; Grammar.; Greek language.; Historical linguistics.; Phonology.; Comparative Linguistics.; Greek.; Historical Linguistics.

This book discusses the morpho-syntactic Balkan Sprachbund features in nine languages in which they are most numerous. It contains a wealth of Balkan linguistic material, collected from both the existing literature sources and from the author’s own field work. Rather than making parallel lists of co...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents Preface. Less Common Alphabet Symbols. Abbreviations and Symbols
• Introduction
• Ethno-Historical Considerations
• Cases and Articles
• Clitic Clusters and Clitic Doubling
• The Perfect and the Evidential
• Infinitives and Subjunctives
• Appendix One: Core Vocabularies. Appendix Two: Sample Texts. Appendix Three: Languages Spoken on the Balkans
• References: Books and papers referred to in the text. Reference grammars
• Subject index. Language index
• Author index.