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Exploring the Parameters of a Central European Sprachbund
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Canadian Slavonic Papers
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March 1, 2008
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ABSTRACT:This paper sets out a case for identifying a Carpathian Sprachbund comprising Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Kajkavian Croatian, Hungarian, Yiddish and the Bavarian-Austrian dialect of German. It investigates the distribution of eleven possible Sprachbund-forming features: five phonological (ab
sence of tones, initial stress, phonemic opposition of length in vowels, absence of a palatalization correlation, the presence of medial l), six morpho-syntactical (a basic three-tense verbal system, an analytical future formed with an inchoative plus the infinitive, an original perfect as the only simple preterite, a pluperfect formed from a double perfect, a pre-posed definite and indefinite ...
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