In and Around the Balkans: Romance Languages and the Making of Layered Languages

Gardani, Francesco; Loporcaro, Michele; Giudici, Alberto

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“…In a similar vein, Jaeger et al (2011) and Guzmán Naranjo and Becker (2022) address contact by using both macro-areas and distances between languages. 3 However, see Gardani et al (2021) for a discussion of the pitfalls of using geographical proximity as a proxy for language contact. While these approaches can be useful for automatic control, and to estimate the degree of contact between languages, the current technique builds samples directly based on established contact relations between language communities.…”

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A sampling technique for worldwide comparisons of language contact scenarios

Garbo

Souza

2023

Linguistic Typology

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Existing sampling methods in language typology strive to control for areal biases in typological datasets as a means to avoid contact effects in the distribution of linguistic structure. However, none of these methods provide ways to directly compare contact scenarios from a typological perspective. This paper addresses this gap by introducing a sampling procedure for worldwide comparisons of language contact scenarios. The sampling unit consists of sets of three languages. The Focus Language is the language whose structures we examine in search for contact effects; the Neighbor Language is genealogically unrelated to the Focus Language, and counts as the potential source of contact influence on the Focus Language; the Benchmark Language is a relative of the Focus Language neither in contact with the Focus nor with the Neighbor language, and is used for disentangling contact effects from genealogical inheritance in the Focus Language. Through this design, we compiled a sample of 49 three-language sets (147 languages in total), which we present here. By switching the focus of typological sampling from individual languages to contact relations between languages, our method has the potential of uncovering patterns in the diffusion of language structures, and how they vary and change.

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“… 3 However, see Gardani et al (2021) for a discussion of the pitfalls of using geographical proximity as a proxy for language contact. …”

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A sampling technique for worldwide comparisons of language contact scenarios

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Souza

2023

Linguistic Typology

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Italo-Albanian: Balkan Inheritance and Romance Influence

Breu

2021

J. Lang. Contact

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This chapter deals with contact-induced change in Italo-Albanian and its effects on the Balkan inheritance of this minority language. The introduction is dedicated to the general characteristics of Albanian and its varieties from a historical, dialectological and geographic perspective, followed by a section on the historical and present situation of the Italo-Albanians. While Section 3 discusses the role of Balkanisms in Standard Albanian, Section 4 gives a general overview of the fate of these Sprachbund criteria in Italo-Albanian. In Section 5, contact-induced changes in the verb systems in single Italo-Albanian dialects are investigated, with special regard to the changes in the future tense, in the analytical perfect and verbal aspect, followed by a discussion of the innovative causative construction and other periphrases. Finally, changes in the domains of mood and voice in the Italo-Albanian dialects are described, most of them of recent date and, in part, not accepted by conservative speakers. All contact-induced developments in the minority language, as well as those parts of its grammar that have resisted foreign influence, are contrasted with their Standard-Albanian counterparts. As will be shown, many traditional Balkan features have been weakened or lost, whereas others have even expanded, but always in the direction of Romance models, to which Italo-Albanian functionally has adapted or which it has calqued.

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In and Around the Balkans: Romance Languages and the Making of Layered Languages

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A sampling technique for worldwide comparisons of language contact scenarios

A sampling technique for worldwide comparisons of language contact scenarios

Italo-Albanian: Balkan Inheritance and Romance Influence

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