Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration
Greenberg, Robert DAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2008.
Language rifts in the Balkans are endemic, but the break-up of the Serbo-Croat language into four languages on the path towards mutual unintelligibility within a decade is, by any previous standard of linguistic behaviour, extraordinary. Robert Greenberg describes how it happened.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language rifts in the Balkans are endemic, but the break-up of the Serbo-Croat language into four languages on the path towards mutual unintelligibility within a decade is, by any previous standard of linguistic behaviour, extraordinary. Robert Greenberg describes how it happened.
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