Language and identity in the Balkans : Serbo-Croatian and its disintegration.

Language rifts in the Balkans are endemic, but the break-up of the Serbo-Croat language into four languages on the path towards mutual unintelligibility within a decade is, by any previous standard of linguistic behaviour, extraordinary. Robert Greenberg describes how it happened.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Greenberg, Robert D. (Robert David)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Edition:	Updated ed.
Subjects:	Serbo-Croatian language > 20th century. Serbo-Croatian language > 21st century. Linguistic change > Balkan Peninsula. Language and culture > Balkan Peninsula. Language policy > Balkan Peninsula. Serbo-croate (Langue) > 20e siècle. Serbo-croate (Langue) > 21e siècle. Changement linguistique > Balkans. Langage et culture > Balkans. Language and culture. Language policy. Linguistic change. Serbo-Croatian language. Balkan Peninsula. Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages & Literatures. Languages & Literatures. 1900-2099 Electronic books.
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Language and identity in the Balkans : Serbo-Croatian and its disintegration /

by Greenberg, Robert D. (Robert David)
Published 2004

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