Slavic on the Language Map of Europe: Historical and Areal-Typological Dimensions

Contents
Contributors
Searching for a place of Slavic in Europe as a linguistic area
Part I: Issues in Methodology and Pre-History
1. Matrёška and areal clusters involving varieties of Slavic. On methodology and data treatment
2. Common Slavic in the light of language contact and areal linguistics: Issues of methodology and the history of research
3. Intertwining trees, eddies, and tentacles — some thoughts on linguistic relationships in Europe, mainly Slavicnon- Slavic
Part II: Slavic and Standard Average European
4. Standard Average European revisited in the light of Slavic evidence
5. The perfects of Eastern “Standard Average European”: Byzantine Greek, Old Church Slavonic, and the role of roofing
6. Slavic vis-à-vis Standard Average European: An areal-typological profiling on the morphosyntactic and phonological levels
7. How Yiddish can recover covert Asianisms in Slavic, and Asianisms and Slavisms in German (prolegomena to a typology of Asian linguistic influences in Europe)
Part III: Slavic in Areal Groupings in Europe
8. Defining the Central European convergence area
9. Some morpho-syntactic features of the Slavic languages of the Danube Basin from a pan-European perspective
10. Slavic dialects in the Balkans: Unified and diverse, recipient and donor
11. Balkanisms and Carpathianisms or, Carpathian Balkanisms?
12. Morphosyntactic changes in Slavic micro-languages: The case of Molise Slavic in total language contact
13. On formulas of equivalence in grammaticalization: An example from Molise Slavic
14. Placing Kashubian on the language map of Europe
Index of subjects
Index of languages