12. Morphosyntactic changes in Slavic micro-languages: The case of Molise Slavic in total language contact

Breu, Walter

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“…In addition, as in Italian, the imperfect is obligatory for expressing processes and unlimited states and can never be replaced by the imperfective l-perfect, contrary to what has happened in HMLD.Cro. While the aorist has been lost in MOL.Cro, verbs with imperfective and perfective aspect can be rendered in the imperfect (Breu 2014).…”

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“…Both oppositions freely combine with each other, with special functions for the 'contradictory' combinations of the perfective imperfect (habituality) and the imperfective perfect (delimitation). SeeBreu (2014) for more details. 21 SeeBreu, Berghaus & Scholze (2017) for further details about the aspectual characteristics of MOL.Cro and other Slavic micro-languages in contact situations, including BGLD.Cro.…”

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Diachronic perspectives on change in spoken Croatian amongst Croatian indigenous minorities in Austria, Italy and Hungary

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Vuk³

2021

Diaspora Language Contact

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See Breu (2017aBreu ( , 2018a. Many poems have been published in the last two decades in Mundimitar, above all in the ongoing series S našimi riči ['In our own words'] by Antonio Sammartino, starting in 2004. The only Molise Croat novelist is Nicola Gliosca from Kruč. He wrote Sep aš Mena in 2009, and altogether completed five novels. For some of his earlier works in other genres see University of Konstanz (n.d.).

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Diachronic perspectives on change in spoken Croatian amongst Croatian indigenous minorities in Austria, Italy and Hungary

Ščukanec¹,

Breu²,

Vuk³

2021

Diaspora Language Contact

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“…without the article would also be possible. This is a secondary effect of the development of a contact-induced article system in their language as a result of copying the polysemy of Italian uno, functioning as both the numeral 'one' and as an indefinite article, with the result of their numeral (je)na becoming also an indefinite article (adaptation of the semantic structure); see Breu ( , 2019. As the usage of the b. Nonda voda ne biša doma.…”

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Partitivity in Slavic-Romance language contact: The case of Molise Slavic in Italy

Breu

2020

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Molise Slavic is a south Slavic micro-language, spoken in three municipalities in the Italian region of Molise. It has been in a situation of total language contact with Romance varieties for about 500 years, with strong foreign influence on all linguistic levels. This paper is intended as a contribution to two combined fields of linguistics: contact linguistics and the expression of partitivity in Slavic in different settings. The paper opens with a short description of the position of the (morphological) partitive case in Russian, followed by a comparison of the role of case in expressing partitive objects in Russian, Croatian and Molise Slavic. The subsequent section will deal with other means of rendering pure and ablativic partitivity in Italian as the dominant model language and in the Molise Slavic replica, in particular with respect to the similarities and differences in existential constructions. Special attention will be paid to the Italian partitive particle ne and its formal and functional equivalents in Molise Slavic, including the particle na/ne, partitive personal pronouns, quantifiers, the genitive and the role of intonation and word order. Finally we will test various hypotheses about the origin of the particle na/ne, whose formal variation in one of the Molise Slavic dialects causes serious problems for both loanword integration and semantic calquing.

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“…It is in such situations that the concept of a common diasystem or diagrammar of the two (or more) languages in question becomes evident. The concept of "diagrammar" is a theoretical model based on the hypothesis that multilingual speakers do not strictly separate the grammars of their two or more languages but combine them in the most economical way possible; see Breu (2011: 440) and Breu (2019bBreu ( , 2020. It could be argued that the grammars of the individual languages in contact are synchronically derived from their diagrammar, i.e.…”

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Clausal complementation in South Slavic

Nikolić

2022

Canadian Slavonic Papers

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This volume presents a collection of articles that share a focus on South Slavic languages and clausal complementation. They offer insights on this topic from various perspectives, taking up issues relevant not only for specialists of (South) Slavic languages, but also for the broader linguistic community interested in clause combining, areal linguistics, language contact, diachronic syntax and/or corpus linguistics. In their entirety, the studies assembled here cover the entire linguistic geography of South Slavic, including exclave varieties in Italy as well as contact with non-Slavic languages such as Albanian and Hungarian.The volume arose from the workshop "Variation in space and time: clausal complementation in South Slavic," which was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and organized by the editors on March 17-19, 2016, at the University of Zurich. Most of the contributors to this volume were also participants in that workshop. We thank every author for their continued motivation to contribute to this joint endeavor, which, as we hope, will help establish directions for the study of clause combining, in particular of clausal complementation, in Slavic languages in a modern framework. We are also obliged to an anonymous reviewer who provided thoroughgoing and valuable comments on every article and to Giulia Morra for her assistance in creating the index. Moreover, we thank the publishing house De Gruyter and, in particular, the editors in charge of the TiLSM series for taking our volume on board.

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12. Morphosyntactic changes in Slavic micro-languages: The case of Molise Slavic in total language contact

Abstract: See for example its absence in the paradigm of tit in the grammar of Sammartino (2004: 98-100), which, contrary to what it says in the title, only refers to the dialect of Montemitro. 15 Full paradigms of the two futures in the past can be found in Breu (2011b: 158).

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Diachronic perspectives on change in spoken Croatian amongst Croatian indigenous minorities in Austria, Italy and Hungary

Diachronic perspectives on change in spoken Croatian amongst Croatian indigenous minorities in Austria, Italy and Hungary

Partitivity in Slavic-Romance language contact: The case of Molise Slavic in Italy

Clausal complementation in South Slavic

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