Balkan syntax and semantics
By: edited by Olga Mis eska Tomic .
Series: Linguistik aktuell = -- Linguistics today -- v. 67; Linguistik aktuell -- Bd. 67.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9789027295392
Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES; Languages; Indo-europese talen; Alphabets & Writing Systems; Semantics; Syntax
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Table of contents: title: 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