Slavic on the Language Map of Europe: Historical and Areal-Typological Dimensions

Conceptually, the volume focuses on the relationship of the three key notions that essentially triggered the inception and subsequent realization of this project, to wit, language contact, grammaticalization, and areal grouping. Fully concentrated on the areal-typological and historical dimensions of Slavic, the volume offers new insights into a number of theoretical issues, including language contact, grammaticalization, mechanisms of borrowing, the relationship between areal, genetic, and typological sampling, conservative features versus innovation, and socio-linguistic aspects of linguistic alliances conceived of both synchronically and diachronically. The volume integrates new approaches towards the areal-typological profiling of Slavic as a member of several linguistic areas within Europe, including SAE, the Balkan Sprachbund and Central European groupings(s) like the Danubian or Carpathian areas, as well as the Carpathian-Balkan linguistic macroarea. Some of the chapters focus on structural affinities between Slavic and other European languages that arose as a result of either grammatical replication or borrowing. A special emphasis is placed on contact-induced grammaticalization in Slavic micro-languages

Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Searching for a place of Slavic in Europe as a linguistic area --; 1. Matrёška and areal clusters involving varieties of Slavic. On methodology and data treatment --; 2. Common Slavic in the light of language contact and areal linguistics: Issues of methodology and the history of research --; 3. Intertwining trees, eddies, and tentacles - some thoughts on linguistic relationships in Europe, mainly Slavicnon- Slavic --; 4. Standard Average European revisited in the light of Slavic evidence --; 5. The perfects of Eastern "Standard Average European": Byzantine Greek, Old Church Slavonic, and the role of roofing --; 6. Slavic vis-à-vis Standard Average European: An areal-typological profiling on the morphosyntactic and phonological levels --; 7. How Yiddish can recover covert Asianisms in Slavic, and Asianisms and Slavisms in German (prolegomena to a typology of Asian linguistic influences in Europe) --; 8. Defining the Central European convergence area --; 9. Some morpho-syntactic features of the Slavic languages of the Danube Basin from a pan-European perspective --; 10. Slavic dialects in the Balkans: Unified and diverse, recipient and donor --; 11. Balkanisms and Carpathianisms or, Carpathian Balkanisms? --; 12. Morphosyntactic changes in Slavic micro-languages: The case of Molise Slavic in total language contact --; 13. On formulas of equivalence in grammaticalization: An example from Molise Slavic --; 14. Placing Kashubian on the language map of Europe --; Index of subjects --; Index of languages