Parallel Universes and Universal Parallels: Balkan Romani Evidential Strategies
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Victor A. Friedman
Abstract
The article examines the use of particles of interrogative origin to mark evidential strategies in three distinct and separate (albeit ultimately related) Balkan Romani dialects or groups of dialects in Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Serbia.1 The use of the respective particles to render meanings belonging to the evidential complex (admirativity, dubitativity, and neutral nonconfirmativity) show typological parallels to developments involving interrogative markers in other languages. At the same time, the presence of evidential strategies in contact languages offers the possibility of adducing how accounts of contact induced change can be elucidated by typology without conflating the two types of explanation.
Abstract
The article examines the use of particles of interrogative origin to mark evidential strategies in three distinct and separate (albeit ultimately related) Balkan Romani dialects or groups of dialects in Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Serbia.1 The use of the respective particles to render meanings belonging to the evidential complex (admirativity, dubitativity, and neutral nonconfirmativity) show typological parallels to developments involving interrogative markers in other languages. At the same time, the presence of evidential strategies in contact languages offers the possibility of adducing how accounts of contact induced change can be elucidated by typology without conflating the two types of explanation.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction – Morpho-Syntactic Convergences and Current Linguistic Theory 1
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Part I: Contact Phenomena, Causes and Types of Explanations
- Balkan Syntax: Typological and Diachronic Aspects 13
- Parallel Universes and Universal Parallels: Balkan Romani Evidential Strategies 37
- Areal Typology and Balkan (Morpho-)Syntax 49
- Diachronic Regularities Explaining the Tendency towards Explicit Analytic Marking in Balkan Syntax 70
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Part II: Balkan Syntax and Universal Principles of Grammar
- Impersonal reflexives in Romance and Slavic: Contact effects in the Balkans 87
- Morphology versus Syntax in the Balkan Verbal Complex 99
- Universal Constraints on Balkanisms. A Case Study: The absence of Clitic Climbing 151
- Balkan Clitic Doubling Revisited: Micro-Variation, Typological Generalizations, and a True Universal 192
- Cross-categorial Syncretism and Containment in Balkan and Slavic 218
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Part III: Variation in the Sprachbund
- Modal habere-Constructions in the Balkan Slavic Context 249
- The Romanian subjunctive from a Balkan perspective 278
- Subjunctive complements in Balkan languages: Problems of distribution 315
- Language Index 337
- Subject Index 339
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction – Morpho-Syntactic Convergences and Current Linguistic Theory 1
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Part I: Contact Phenomena, Causes and Types of Explanations
- Balkan Syntax: Typological and Diachronic Aspects 13
- Parallel Universes and Universal Parallels: Balkan Romani Evidential Strategies 37
- Areal Typology and Balkan (Morpho-)Syntax 49
- Diachronic Regularities Explaining the Tendency towards Explicit Analytic Marking in Balkan Syntax 70
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Part II: Balkan Syntax and Universal Principles of Grammar
- Impersonal reflexives in Romance and Slavic: Contact effects in the Balkans 87
- Morphology versus Syntax in the Balkan Verbal Complex 99
- Universal Constraints on Balkanisms. A Case Study: The absence of Clitic Climbing 151
- Balkan Clitic Doubling Revisited: Micro-Variation, Typological Generalizations, and a True Universal 192
- Cross-categorial Syncretism and Containment in Balkan and Slavic 218
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Part III: Variation in the Sprachbund
- Modal habere-Constructions in the Balkan Slavic Context 249
- The Romanian subjunctive from a Balkan perspective 278
- Subjunctive complements in Balkan languages: Problems of distribution 315
- Language Index 337
- Subject Index 339
