Central South Slavic Linguistic Taxonomies and the Language/Dialect Dichotomy: Rhetorical Strategies and Faulty Epistemologies

This article analyzes the epistemology of the language/dialect (L/D) dichotomy. The L/D dichotomy gives rise to disputes between “splitters”, who want to split the speech of a given region into more than one “language”, and “lumpers”, who view the region as speaking one “language” albeit with divers...

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Main Authors: Maxwell Alexander, Vukotić Vuk, Klaver Susie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2025-03-01
Series:Comparative Southeast European Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2024-0047
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