Publications

Publication details [#55541]

Wiemer, Björn and Aksana Erker. 2011. Manifestations of areal convergence in rural Belarusian spoken in the Baltic-Slavic contact zone. Journal of language contact 4 : 184–216.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialectology | geolinguistics | language contact | language transfer | language use

Language as a subject

Belarusian | Polish | Slavic

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

Drawing on procedures and views from dialect geography, areal and contact linguistics, this study focuses on a particular, insufficiently explored mixed dialect of Belarusian, spread throughout the whole Slavic-Baltic contact region.