Balkan and South Slavic Enclaves in Italy : Languages, Dialects and Identities.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Albanian in Italy -- Italian-Balkan Linguistic Interactions in the Italian-Albanian Food Lexicon -- Demographic and Linguistic Decline in Four Arbëresh Villages -- Code-switching and Borrowing in Arbëresh Dialects -- Word Formation of Late 19th Century Arbëresh Texts from the Village of San Nicola dell'Alto -- Arbëresh Syllable Pattern -- Italo-Albanian from the Text Perspective -- Part 2: Greek in Italy -- Hommage au Balkaniste Gerhard Rohlfs -- Parallels between the Greco and the Calabrian Verbal Systems -- Greek in Southern Italy -- New Initiatives on the Research and Documentation of Griko and Arbëresh in Apulia -- Lexical and Onomasiological Concordances among Greek Dialects of Magna Grecia, Ionian Islands, Epirus and South Albania -- "Grecità" and Orthodox Religion in Calabria -- The Greek Press's Contribution to the Preservation of the Grecanic Dialect -- Part 3: Slavic in Italy -- Slavic-Romance Linguistic Contact Revisited -- On the Influence of Italian on the Grammar of Molise Slavic and Italo-Albanian -- The Order and Placement of Clitics in (Old) Croatian and Molise Croatian -- The ND Clusters in the Croatian Dialect of Acquaviva Collecroce (Na-Našu) -- Part 4: Balkan Liguisitics and Balkan Dialectology -- An Overview of Balkan Linguistics and Dialectology in the Past and Present -- Types of Possessive Structures in the Balkan Languages and in Arbëresh -- On the Etymology of Dairy Terminology -- Areal Linguistics and Dialect Boundaries -- Borrowing of Turkish Dialect Words in Bulgarian Dialects under Conditions of Bilingualism.

This volume is a collection of new writings dealing with some of the Balkan linguistic varieties spoken in north-eastern, central and southern Italy. It brings together twenty-two papers, some of which investigate the mutual influences between each of these Balkan and South Slavic language varieties and their neighbouring Italian dialects. Other contributions study common tendencies which do not just pertain to local contacts, but which are of greater significance for the history of linguistic and cultural contacts in Italy. All of the chapters here present new empirical findings and reflect the breadth and diversity of current research in the fields of areal linguistics, language variation, Balkan dialectology, language contact, types of Balkan convergences, types of structure transfers, the borrowing of structural patterns, and directions of grammaticalisation.

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