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Balkan Syntax and Semantics
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The book deals with some syntactic and semantic aspects of the shared Balkan Sprachbund properties. In a comprehensive introductory chapter, Tomić 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 clitics or non-active morphology (Rivero), Balkan optatives (Ammann and Auwera), imperative force in the Balkan languages (Isac and Jakab), clitic placement in Greek imperatives (Bošković), focused constituents in Romanian and Bulgarian (Hill), synthetic and analytic tenses in Romanian (D'Hulst, Coene and Avram), "purpose-like" modification in a number of Balkan languages (Bužarovska), Balkan modal existential “wh”-constructions (Grosu), child and adult strategies in interpreting empty subjects in Serbian/Croatian (Stojanović and Marelj), conditional sentences in Judeo-Spanish (Montoliu and Auwera).
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 67] 2004. xvi, 496 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
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Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. vii–viii
- Map of the Balkans | pp. ix–x
- List of abbreviations | pp. xi–xvi
- The Balkan Sprachbund morpho-syntactic properties: An introductionOlga Mišeska Tomić | pp. 1–55
- Spread of the Balkan Sprachbund morpho-syntactic properties
- On the areal distribution of the syntactic properties in the languages of the BalkansAndrej N. Sobolev | pp. 59–100
- The Typology of Balkan Evidentiality and Areal LinguisticsVictor A. Friedman | pp. 101–134
- The nominal phrase
- Polydefinite constructions in Modern Greek and in AromanianHéctor Campos and Melita Stavrou | pp. 136–173
- Balkan possessive clitics: The problem of case and categoryRoumyana Pancheva | pp. 175–219
- Optional movement of Bulgarian possessive clitics to I: Some implications for Binding TheoryChristo Moskovsky | pp. 221–233
- The root clause
- Datives and the non-active voice: Reflexive clitics in Balkan languagesMaría Luisa Rivero | pp. 237–267
- On the clitic switch in Greek imperativesŽeljko Bošković | pp. 269–291
- Complementizer-headed main clauses for volitional moods in the languages of South-Eastern Europe: a Balkanism? | pp. 293–314
- Mood and force features in the languages of the BalkansDaniela Isac and Edit Jakab | pp. 315–338
- On left periphery and focusVirginia Hill | pp. 339–354
- Syncretic and analytic tenses in Romanian: The Balkan setting of RomanceYves D’hulst, Martine Coene and Larisa Avram | pp. 355–374
- The complex sentence
- Subjunctive relatives in Balkan languagesEleni Bužarovska | pp. 377–404
- The syntax-semantics of modal existential wh constructionsAlexander Grosu | pp. 405–438
- Interpreting empty subjects in nontensed complement clauses: Child and adult StrategiesDanijela Stojanovic and Marijana Marelj | pp. 439–459
- On Judeo-Spanish conditionalsCésar Montoliu and Johan van der Auwera | pp. 461–474
- Author Index | pp. 475–480
- Index of languages, dialects and toponyms | pp. 481–486
- Subject Index | pp. 487–496
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