The atlas of the Balkan linguistic area program
This article presents the Atlas of the Balkan Linguistic Area (ABLA), a French- Russian research program that created an online database of language contact phenomena documented in the languages of the Balkans. This resource will be open access after its launch in 2025, enriching the fields...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute for Balkan Studies SASA
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Balcanica |
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| Online Access: | https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-7653/2024/0350-76532455069A.pdf |
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| Summary: | This article presents the Atlas of the Balkan Linguistic Area (ABLA), a
French- Russian research program that created an online database of language
contact phenomena documented in the languages of the Balkans. This resource
will be open access after its launch in 2025, enriching the fields of Balkan
and areal linguistics. Specifically, ABLA consists of 93 phonological,
morpho-syntactic, semantic, and lexical features. Each feature is matched to
a map covering 60 localities across Balkan countries. Each map is
accompanied by a chapter co-authored by the project contributors. The paper
offers some preliminary results for the feature “Infinitive: Forms”. The
online database in Wordpress is hosted by Huma-Num in France. ABLA, to be
published by de Gruyter, is not only the first online database for the
Balkans, an area shaped by multilingualism in forms that are rapidly
disappearing, but also an example for other linguistic areas in the world |
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| ISSN: | 0350-7653 2406-0801 |