TY - BOOK AU - ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Balkan Sprachbund Morpho-Syntactic Features T2 - Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, SN - 9781402044885 AV - P101-410 U1 - 410 23 PY - 2006/// CY - Dordrecht PB - Springer Netherlands KW - Linguistics KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Greek philology KW - Phonology KW - Comparative Linguistics KW - Grammar KW - Greek KW - Historical Linguistics N1 - 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; ZDB-2-SHU N2 - 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 authors own field work. Rather than making parallel lists of convergent phenomena, the author focuses on displaying similarities and differences in the representation of the most widely acknowledged Balkan Sprachbund morpho-syntactic features and their interaction with other features in the structure of the DP or the sentence of individual languages. The book stands at the intersection of traditional and formal linguistics. The use of a minimally technical terminology allows for a cross-framework accessibility of the data. The book will be of interest to researchers and students working in the fields of comparative linguistics and Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Romanian, Megle-no-Romanian, Aromanian, Albanian, Modern Greek and Balkan Romani languages UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4488-7 ER -