Until recently, the accepted view in work addressing the relationship between lexical semantics and syntax was that lexical verbs uniquely determine the properties of the structures they project in syntax. On a popular recent view, form-meaning pairs above the level of the word are an integral part… read more
In this paper we take a somewhat unconventional perspective and address the evolution of the article as attested in early South Slavic (10th – 11th c.) in the light of contact with New Testament Greek, which was the source language for the early translations in a situation of active language… read more
In this paper we address the origin of the phenomenon of clitic doubling in the Balkan linguistic continuum based in data from the earliest Old Bulgarian manuscripts. We argue that our data witness instances of what we consider clitic doubling proper, similar to the Modern Bulgarian phenomenon of… read more