Balkan Syntax and Semantics (Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today)

516 Pages·2004·2.56 MB·English

by  Olga Miseska Tomic

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BalkanSyntaxandSemantics
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Balkan Syntax and Semantics
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Table of contents
Preface vii
MapoftheBalkans ix
Listofabbreviations xi
TheBalkanSprachbundproperties:Anintroduction 1
OlgaMišeskaTomi´c
SpreadoftheBalkansprachbundmorpho-syntacticproperties
Onthearealdistributionofsyntacticpropertiesinthelanguages
oftheBalkans 59
AndrejN.Sobolev
ThetypologyofBalkanevidentialityandareallinguistics 101
VictorA.Friedman
Thenominalphrase
PolydefiniteconstructionsinModernGreekandinAromanian 137
HéctorCamposandMelitaStavrou
Balkanpossessiveclitics:Theproblemofcaseandcategory 175
RoumyanaPancheva
OptionalmovementofBulgarianpossessivecliticstoI:
SomeimplicationsforBindingTheory 221
ChristoMoskovsky
Therootclause
Dativesandthenon-activevoice:ReflexivecliticsinBalkanLanguages 237
MariaLuisaRivero
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OnthecliticswitchinGreekimperatives 269
ŽeljkoBoškovi´c
Complementizer-headedmainclausesforvolitionalmoods
inthelanguagesofSouth-EasternEurope:ABalkanism? 293
AndreasAmmannandJohanvanderAuwera
MoodandforcefeaturesinthelanguagesoftheBalkans 315
DanielaIsacandEditJakab
Onleftperipheryandfocus 339
VirginiaHill
SyncreticandanalytictensesinRomanian:
TheBalkansettingofRomance 355
YvesD’Hulst,MartineCoeneandLarisaAvram
Thecomplexsentence
SubjunctiverelativesinBalkanlanguages 377
EleniBužarovska
Thesyntax-semanticsofmodalexistentialwhconstructions 405
AlexanderGrosu
Interpretingemptysubjectsinnontensedcomplementclauses:
Childandadultstrategies 439
DanijelaStojanovi´candMarijanaMarelj
OnJudeo-Spanishconditionals 461
CésarMontoliuandJohanvanderAuwera
Authorindex 475
Indexoflanguages,dialectsandtoponyms 481
Subjectindex 487
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Preface
ThecontributionstothisvolumeoriginatedaspaperspresentedattheConference
on the Balkan Sprachbund Properties, held at the University of Leiden, 7–9 June
2001, within the framework of the Spinoza Project “Lexicon and Syntax.”1 They
analyzeindividualsyntacticorsemanticpropertiesofnineBalkanlanguage–the
Slavic languages Macedonian, Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian; the Romance lan-
guagesRomanian,AromanianandMegleno-Romanian;Albanian;ModernGreek;
and the Arli Balkan Romanidialect. Serbo-Croatian is spoken as amajority lan-
guagein Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro, and as a
minoritylanguageinareasinHungaryandRomaniaadjacenttoCroatiaandSer-
bia.2MacedonianisspokenasamajoritylanguageinMacedonia,andasaminority
language in a large area in Northern Greece, as well as in areas in Albania adja-
centtoMacedonia.AlbanianisspokenasamajoritylanguageinAlbaniaandthe
(Southern Serbian) province of Kosovo, and as a minority language in Western
MacedoniaandNorthwesternGreece.Romanianisspokenasamajoritylanguage
inRomania,andasaminoritylanguageinareasinSerbiaandBulgariaadjacentto
Romania.ModernGreekisspokenasamajoritylanguageinGreeceandasami-
noritylanguageinSouthernAlbania.Bulgarian isspokenas amajority language
in Bulgaria and as a minority language in a restricted area in Serbia adjacent to
Bulgaria.Aromanian, Megleno-Romanianand BalkanRomaniare notspokenas
majority languages in any country on the Balkans or anywhere else. Balkan Ro-
mani is spokenby scattered communities throughout the Balkans; Arli is one of
theBalkanRomanidialectsspokeninandaroundthecapitalofMacedonia,Skopje.
Megleno-Romanianisspokenbyafewthousandpeopleoriginallylivinginafew
villagesinwhat isnowSoutheasternMacedoniaandtheadjacent partofGreece.
Aromanian is spoken in central and western Macedonia, Southern Albania and
CentralandNorthwesternGreece.(seeMap)
For comments on individual contributions, thanks are due to the following
reviewers: Artemis Alexiadou,Wayles Browne, ŽeljkoBoškovic´, HéctorCampos,
Violeta Demonte, Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova, Donka Farkas, Victor Friedman,
Helen Goodluck, Alexander Grosu, Amin Hetzer, Virginia Hill, Daniela Isac,
EditJakab,UweJunghanns,DalinaKallulli,DimitraKolliakou,ChristinaKramer,
Iliyana Krapova, Brian Joseph, Pieter Muysken, Roumyana Pancheva, Cecilia
Poletto,MariaLouisaRivero,JosephSchallert,PenkaStateva,MelitaStavrou,Anna
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 Preface
Szabolczi, Arhonto Terzi, Sarah Thomasson. During the preparation of the final
version of the book, I profited very much from the comments of the series edi-
tors, Werner Abraham and Elly van Gelderen, towhom I owe my gratitude.For
continuoussupportinmywork,IamspecificallyindebtedtoPieterMuysken.
OlgaMišeskaTomic´
Notes
. Forinformationabouttheareas,theteamandthetaskoftheProjectcf.http://www.let.
leidenuniv.nl/spls
. Upon the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Serbo-Croatian dissolved into Serbian, Croat-
ian and Bosnian.The grammatical structures of the three “successors” do not, however,
substantiallydifferfromoneanother.
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Map of the Balkans
AUSTRIA
MOLDOVA
HUNGARY
SLOVENIA
ROMANIA
Ljubjana Zagreb
A
ITA Belgrade
O BOSNIAAND Bucharest
RHERZEGOVINA
C
Sarajevo
S SERBIA & MONTENEGRO
e
e Sofia
A
dri BULGARIA
ati
ITALY c Skopje
Tirana Istanbul
MACEDONIA
ALBANIA
GREECE
TURKEY
Athens
Sea Mediterranean
Heraklion
CRETE
200 400 600 800 km