This paper deals with the so-colled Balkanisms (=Balkan linguistic elements) in the Slavic languages of Balkansprachbund. The genetic method cf Slavic languages operates with kinship, the areal with affinity, and the typological with isomorphisrn The ...
This paper deals with the so-colled Balkanisms (=Balkan linguistic elements) in the Slavic languages of Balkansprachbund. The genetic method cf Slavic languages operates with kinship, the areal with affinity, and the typological with isomorphisrn The south slavonic languages, so-called Bulgarian, Mazedononian, Serbocrcatian and Slovenian have a lot in common with themself. They have also differentia. This paper makes it clear from a standpoint of Balkansprachbund. These Languages are in many respects closely connected with mutual and the most striking structural differences have come from Language contact.
Bulgarian is one of the major Balkansprachbund, while it has the most of Balkanism s in itself.
(1) the definite article - postposed article
(2) the future marker
(3) the "rnore/most" intensifiers
(4) the short forms of the personal (and reflexive) pronouns
(5) the interrogative particle
(6) the numeral structure of 11-19 "one-on-ten"
Mazedononian is proved to be in a similar linguistic situation as Bulgarian from the side of Balkansprachbund, but Serbo-Croatian in a some different appearance.