Proceedings of the 45th International Philological Conference (IPC 2016)

Session: Balkan Studies, Modern Greek and Byzantine Philology

9 articles
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The Meaning and Functions of Jussive in the Albanian Language.The Case of Problem Statement

Larisa Kaminskaia
Verbal constructions with the general meaning of encouragement to act (Letёshkojnёata! 'Let them go!'/'Pust oni pojdut!')make the target of the research. The constructions under consideration are formed with particle 'le' which etymologically dates back to the imperative form of the second person singular...
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Aoristused to express the future in old Croatian language sources

Amir Kapetanovich
The paper analyses the use of aorist to express the future in old Croatian written sources. This relative use of aorist is also possible in modern Croatian, however it is rare and limited. The goal of this paper is to analyse the usage of aorist future forms in the Croatian language in the past, especially...
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Affricates in Aromanian spontaneous speech

Anastasia Kharlamova
This article uses instrumental analysis of spontaneous speech data collected from speakers of the varieties of the Aromanian language in the village of Turia (Greece) and the town of Resen (FYRM) as a base to research affricate inventory and phonetical change processes that affect affricates, including...
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"The Iabalce a phenomenon" in the area of Carasova, Romania

Daria Konior
This paper focuses on the idiom spoken in one of the Krashovani villages in Romanian Banat -Iabalcea, whose residents identify themselves as Krashovani or Croats, but use the Romanian language in everyday conversation. History and ethnogenesis of this Catholic subethnos is sometimes labeled as an "ethnic...
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Chakavian and Church Slavonic elements in the language of the bull of Pope Gregory XI to the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit

Viacheslav Kozak
The article discusses the correlation of Chakavian and Church Slavonic forms in nominal and verbal morphology in the Slavic translation of the bull of Pope Gregory XI to the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit from 1371. Traditionally the language of the monument is defined as Chakavian, but a significant...
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The discourse strategies of bilingual speakers of Macedonian, Aromanian and Albanian dialects in the Prespa region

Anastasia Makarova
In this paper we are dealing with the discourse strategies of bilingual speakers of three dialect varieties in a situation of language contact: the Macedonian, Aromanian and Albanian dialects in the Prespa region. On the basis of the analysis of interference phenomena in the speech of the bilinguals...
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Expedition in Margaritovo (Azov sea region): studies of "former Arnauts"

Alexander Novik
Etnolinguistic field work in Rostov on Don region (village Margaritovo) was organized in 2015. The materials of this expedition are focused on ethnic identity of local population in the border of Russia and Ukraine, traditional culture, popular medicine, etc.
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Albanian dialects: towards the contact typology

Aleksandr Rusakov
The paper considers the different types of Albanian dialect areas sub specie of the language contacts: more and less balkanized areas, zones of the language shift, migratory dialects and so on.
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On possible causes for evolution of actant marking in Balkan Slavic

Andrey Sobolev
The paper presents results of research supported by RSCF grant 14-18-01405. The evolution of actant marking in Balkan Slavic, finalized in loss of case as a category, is explained by replication of Romance grammatical patterns in symbiotic Slavic-Romance ethnic communities. Striking parallels in differential...