27 articles in this issue
Helmut Wilhelm Schaller
The German heritage in Balkan languagesAll Balkan languages show some German elements in their vocabulary, beginning with Old Bulgarian Bible texts up to modern Balkan languages, including Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Albanian, Romanian and Modern Gree... see more
Adrian Poruciuc
Clues to the chronology of Old Germanic loans in Romanian and in other South-East European languagesThe present article is directly based on the handout of the talk this author gave at the International Conference on Balkan Linguistics (6-7 May, 2013, Tor... see more
Corinna Leschber
Implications of macro-areal linguisticsUsing the examples of some Balkan words with a difficult etymology, we attempt to show the possibilities for and implications of applying a macro-areal linguistic perspective to establish a wider view of the linguist... see more
Sorin Paliga
Slavic *t?rg?, Old Church Slavonic tr?g?. Their origin and distribution in postclassical timesSlavic *t?rg?, Old Church Slavonic tr?g?, preserved in the modern Slavic languages as well, has had an impressive distribution in both vocabulary and place... see more
Michal Gluszkowski
Creolization and balkanization as a result of language (dialect) contact. Is the origin of mixed languages universal?There are several types of language contact depending on the relations between languages. The article focuses on the results of language c... see more
?????? [Marjan] ???????? [Markovikj]
Dominant exponents of dynamic spatial relations in the Macedonian language (in a Balkan context)In the Macedonian language, 'doubling' of prepositions is well documented in grammars and monographs, but now we can witness increased use of prepositional seq... see more
Thede Kahl,Michael Metzeltin
The formation of the grammatical number in the standard Balkan languages. A typological comparisonThis article is part of the wider project Grammatica Balkanica, the intentions of which have already been mentioned in previous publications. The present stu... see more
Tomasz Cychnerski
To what extent are the Romanian and the Albanian inflection convergents?This paper presents the results of a short contrastive analysis of functional inflection in the contemporary Romanian and Albanian. Its aim is to determine convergences between these ... see more
Artur Karasinski
The loss of the infinitive in Serbian. Preliminary issueThe article concerns the loss of the infinitive in Serbian literary language and its gradual replacement by the construction da + praesens. The analyzed material consists of Serbian and Serbo-Croatia... see more
????????? [TSvetomira] ??????? [Venkova]
At the crossroads of linguistic theories: Verb combinatoricsThis paper discusses the limitations of syntactic research conducted within a single theoretical framework. The basic claim is that theories have both distinctive and common features, which can b... see more
Bardh Rugova
The status of Albanian in relation to the other Balkan languagesAlbanian has been in contact with other languages almost in all areas in which it is spoken, whereas the relationship with each of them differs from place to place. This study aims at describ... see more
?????? [Maxim] ???????? [Makartsev]
On official texts in Slavic dialects in the County of Korcha, South Eastern AlbaniaIn the article I consider official texts in Slavic dialects in Albania. Three texts are taken as examples: “An Internal Handbook for Organising the Work of a Regional Commi... see more
Lindita Sejdiu-Rugova
The position and the status of Albanian in the Presheva ValleyThe present paper aims at describing the position and the social status of the Albanian language in the two municipalities of south-western Serbia – Preshevo and Bujanovac, where the majority o... see more
Anna Cychnerska
Realization of the vowel /e/ in stressed and unstressed positions in the prosodic word in Macedonian. Preliminary studyAccording to the information in "Phonology of the contemporary standard Macedonian language" by I. Sawicka and L. Spasov (1991) realizat... see more
Vocalic clusters in the Kostur dialectsThe article presents a description of vocalic clusters, occurring in texts from the Kostur dialectal area. The basis for the analysis is 14 texts in the book ???????? ?? ??????????? ?? ???????????? ????? published by... see more
Anna Kozyra
Geminates in the Slavic languagesThe subject of the article is the occurrence of geminates in Slavic languages. Research on the frequency of geminated consonants is based on 50-page texts read by native speakers. The results did not confirm the popular op... see more
Irena Sawicka
Syllabic patterns in South-Eastern EuropeWhereas in most of the world’s languages syllable patterns are built according to the principles of sonority theory (they have the one-peak syllable pattern), in some Balkan languages, there occur deviations from t... see more
Doris Kyriazis
“Why Gypsies and Albanians do not have their own letters”. Greek attitudes towards neighbouring languages during the 19th centuryIn this article several aspects of the Greek attitudes towards neighbours’ languages during the 19th century are presente... see more
Ina Arapi
Albania by the end of the 17th century and relations with neighbouring nations according to archbishop Pjetër Bogdanís work "The band of the prophets" (1685)The old Albanian literature (mid-16th – mid-17th century), which includes the philosophical–theolo... see more
????????? [Krasimira] ?????? [Koleva]
The Bulgarian-Romanian language boundary: anthroponymical dataThe topic is Balkan anthroponymy. The area is the Lower Danube – the Bulgarian-Romanian language boundary. In this contact zone there is a distribution of family names, formed from urbonyms. Th... see more
Alexander Alexandrovich Novik
Lexicon of Albanian mythology: areal studies in the polylingual region of Azov SeaFour villages with Albanian population are located in the Ukraine: Karakurt (Zhovtnevoe) set up in 1811 (Odessa region), Tyushki (Georgievka), Dzhandran (Gammovka) and Taz (... see more
Natalia Jedraszak
Translation strategies in the face of cultural specificity of the 20th century Modern Greek prose translated into PolishAccording to Werner Koller, there are two main types of translations of texts which are connected to literature and culture. These type... see more
Gerd-Dieter Nehring
“And if anyone would ask for me, say I greet him cordially“The paper overviews as obituary the professional career and work of the known scientist in Albanian and Balkan studies Oda Buchholz (21.01.1940-02.01.2014). It focuses particularly on her publicat... see more
Oda Buchholz: List of publicationsThe paper gives the list of publications of prof. Oda Buchholz. Oda Buchholz: Lista publikacjiArtykul stanowi liste publikacji prof. Ody Buchholz.
A short review of the Balkan portals, blogs and websitesThis review offers a listing and brief account of selected sites available on the net, where ‘Balkans’ is the word in focus. The text is designed to encourage interested people to visit websites or t... see more
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