title: ON COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LINGUISTIC COMPLEXITY OF ALBANIAN AND SOUTH SLAVIC DIALECTS
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metadata.value: Morozova, Maria S.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Rusakov, Alexander Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-03-03T17:13:09Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-03-03T17:13:09Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288063183.14
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39270
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article discusses approaches to the measurement and comparative study of linguistic
  complexity of the Balkan dialects, genetically related to different languages. At this
  stage Albanian and South Slavic dialects were considered. Based on dialect descriptions
  and atlases, 948 South Slavic and 131 Albanian locations in the Balkan Peninsula were
  surveyed. Significant differences between the tentative “common Albanian” and “common
  Slavic” states, taken as reference points for measuring complexity, and differences
  between dialectal phenomena relevant for modern Albanian and South Slavic varieties,
  make the creation of a single list of features a non-trivial task. Thus the paper attempts a
  comparative study of complexity using two lists compiled independently for Albanian and
  for South Slavic and including 27 unmatching binary features each. All features reflect the
  “grammatical” complexity of language system (inventory of phonemes and grammemes,
  number of inflectional classes, etc.). Relative complexity or simplicity is seen as not only a
  static characteristic of modern dialects, but also a result of simplifying and complexifying
  innovations that developed in different historical periods, and preservation of the “inherited”
  complexity from “common Albanian” and “common Slavic”. This approach allows
  us to confirm the assumption that language contact can lead to both simplification and
  complexification and to postulate different paths of contact development for Albanian
  and South Slavic dialect zones. Contacts in the Albanian-speaking area are always associated
  with simplification, while South Slavic demonstrates a trend towards simplification,
  with the exception of Western Macedonian, where high complexity results from many
  contact-induced complexifying innovations. Refs 10.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: Исследование выполнено за счет гранта Российского научного фонда № 19-18-00244,
  https://rscf.ru/project/19-18-00244/, https://rscf.ru/project/22-18-35008/.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: St. Petersburg University Studies in Social Sciences & Humanities;Volume 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: linguistic complexity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dialect
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Albanian
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: South Slavic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: innovation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: simplification
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: complexification
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: ON COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LINGUISTIC COMPLEXITY OF ALBANIAN AND SOUTH SLAVIC DIALECTS
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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