title: Languages in the Western Balkan Symbiotic Societies: Greek and Albanian in Himara, Albania
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metadata.value: Sobolev, Andrey N.
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metadata.value: 2017-10-11T16:24:46Z
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metadata.value: 2017-10-11T16:24:46Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-09
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metadata.value: Sobolev A. N. Languages in the Western Balkan Symbiotic Societies: Greek and Albanian in Himara, Albania. Vestnik SPbSU. Language and Literature, 2017, vol. 14, issue 3, pp. 420–442.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu09.2017.310
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8497
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper promotes a hypothesis about a former Greek-Albanian symbiotic society in the krahina
  Himara in South Albania, where the Greek and Albanian languages and cultures coexisted. It discusses
  lexicon and spontaneous narratives in the previously uninvestigated Greek dialect of Palasa village,
  reveals typologically rare and not well-studied non-dominant bilingualism, equal and additional functional
  distribution of Greek and Albanian, code switching and language hybridisation.
  Evidence of additional distribution of Greek and Albanian in Palasa was found in the vocabulary
  of the traditional calendar, narratives, dialogues of the pan-Balkan “The Legend of the Old Lady
  March” and language for mourning the dead. As for the calendar, the data indicates the consolidation
  of the Greek language as the primary means of storing the knowledge, its transmission, and communication
  in the Orthodox Christianity, whereas the Albanian language exhibits a fixed function of disseminating
  the traditional Balkan folk mythological motifs and official Albanian state calendar. In the
  narrative of “The Legend of Old Lady March”, which has been told in Greek, the switch into Albanian is
  indicative when the legendary protagonist insulted the month of March (Dhjefsha buzё marsit! “I wish
  to defecate in front of March!”). The swearing in Albanian is a direct indication of the first language of
  the female ancestors of our consultants, who possibly borrowed the whole narrative from Albanian to
  Greek. Mourning the dead is not a well-studied phenomenon. The women of Palasa, who generally did
  not speak Albanian, mourned their dead in that language and knew the words “by ear”. The phenomenon
  of hybridisation (or fusion) is acknowledged on the lexical level in traditional anthroponomastics
  and with regard to the system of naming months, where we see Albanian month names like Shkurtish,
  for ‘February’ (instead of a reflex of Greek Φλεβάρης). Still, the functional load is distributed equally
  according to the general equal communicative competence of speakers in both languages in specific
  subcategories of the lexical system, e.g. in the names of body parts. Refs 95. Fig. 1. Table 1.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: Настоящее исследование выполнено за счет гранта Российского научного фонда (проект «От
  сепарации до симбиоза: языки и культуры Юго-Восточной Европы в контакте», № 14-18-01405).
  Материал для исследования собирался в 2010-е гг. в ходе многочисленных экспедиций автора
  и А. А . Н овика (МАЭ (Кунсткамера) РАН и СПбГУ), продолженных в российско-албанских и российско-американских проектах в 2014‒2016 гг. Работы финансировались из средств грантов Президиума РАН , РГНФ и РНФ (рук. А. Н . Соболев). Предварительные результаты работы излагались
  в докладе [Соболев, Новик 2016] в Москве и в совместном с Б. Д жозефом, А. А . Н овиком, А. Спиро
  и М. Спиро докладе «Le Palasë de richesse — Greek and Albanian in intimate contact in Himara (A field
  report from Southern Albania, 2015)» на «20th Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics,
  Literature and Folklore», состоявшейся 28‒30 апреля 2016 г. в Университете Юты в Солт-Лейк-
  Сити, США.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 14; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnic symbiosis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Greek dialects in South Albania
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: village Palasa
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Albanian dialects
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: language border
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: language contact settings
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: bilingualism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: functional distribution of languages
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: code switching
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: language hybridisation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dialectal lexicon
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: folklore
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: traditional culture
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Languages in the Western Balkan Symbiotic Societies: Greek and Albanian in Himara, Albania
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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