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Slavic-Albanian Language Contact, Convergence, and Coexistence

Curtis, Matthew Cowan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338406907

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2012, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures.
As historical relationships of Slavs and Albanians in the western Balkans have been subject to a wide range of scholarly interpretations, this dissertation seeks to present the facts of linguistic evidence of Slavic-Albanian contact, and apply them to an informed understanding of Slavs’ and Albanians’ interactions historically. Although individual linguistic features are important for establishing the historical fact of language contact, only a systematic, comprehensive analysis of the several interrelated parts of language—vocabulary, phonology, and morphosyntax—can indicate how the languages, and the communities speaking them, have been affected by the long-standing contact. This study also considers the languages from the perspective of several language-contact theories, creating a multifaceted approach that reveals strengths and weaknesses of each theory, and also paints a multidimensional picture of the effects of language contact and socio-cultural reasons for the languages’ changes. This layered analysis demonstrates that contact between Slavs and Albanians has brought about many linguistic changes, particularly in dialects that have remained in contact with one another. While the most obvious effects are the plenteous lexical borrowings, language contact is also present in phonology and morphosyntax, thus affecting every aspect of the dialects in contact. As the linguistic data shows, Albanian and Slavic communities have enriched one another linguistically and likely in other aspects of their cultural inheritances as well.
Brian Joseph, PhD (Advisor)
Charles Gribble, PhD (Committee Member)
Daniel Collins, PhD (Committee Member)
424 p.
East European Studies; European History; Foreign Language; History; Language; Language Arts; Linguistics; Minority and Ethnic Groups; Morphology; Slavic Literature; Slavic Studies; Sociolinguistics
Slavic; Albanian; language contact; linguistics; Balkan linguistics

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  • Curtis, M. C. (2012). Slavic-Albanian Language Contact, Convergence, and Coexistence [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338406907

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Curtis, Matthew. Slavic-Albanian Language Contact, Convergence, and Coexistence. 2012. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338406907.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Curtis, Matthew. "Slavic-Albanian Language Contact, Convergence, and Coexistence." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338406907

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