Initial observations on the grammatical characteristics, influenced by language contact, in the speech of bilinguals speaking Bulgarian and Ladino
Initial observations on the grammatical characteristics, influenced by language contact, in the speech of bilinguals speaking Bulgarian and Ladino

Summary/Abstract: The paper reports the initial observations on the speech of five bilingual speakers of Bulgarian and Ladino. The aim is to establish the grammatical characteristics, triggered by the situation of language contact. The empirical focus falls on the Bulgarian spoken by the five bilinguals. The objective is to isolate the peculiarities and analyze whether they can be explained as resulting from the influence of Ladino. The study has been carried out within the framework of an international research project on Ladino spoken in Bulgaria (Judeo- Spanish in Bulgaria: A Contact Language between Archaism and Innovation), financed by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG).

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