Against the background of the widely spread contemporary approaches to language variation, which take advantages of the quantity relevant methods usual for natural sciences, the dialectology of Balkan languages employs traditional methods of humanities. The Balkan linguistics addresses qualitatively relevant representative linguistic data, studies in detail the linguistic context of phenomena, reckons systemic restrictions in distribution, looks for isosemantic, isomorph and isofunctional cross-linguistic parallels, interprets areal facts through language contacts and history. The article applies these approaches to the prepositionless nonfinite predicates governed by modal verbs - the infinitive, participle and verbal substantive of the Balkan languages. It comes out on the one hand that the relevance of variation parameters is significantly different and the inventories of forms and structures are language-specific. On the other, the contact-induced character of the binary isosemantic and isomorph cross-Bal
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)950-959
JournalИндоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология
Issue number23-2
StatePublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • Balkan dialects, Balkan Sprachbund, infinitive, linguistic variation, methods in linguistics, nonfinite verbal forms, балканские диалекты, балканский языковой союз, инфинитив, методы лингвистического исследования, нефинитные формы глагола, языковая вариативность

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