Балканистиката и балканославянският ареал в диахронна и съвременна перспектива (с оглед на книжовните езици и езиковата стандартизация)
Balkan Studies and the Balkan Slavic Area from a Diachronic and Synchronic Perspective (With Reference to Standard Languages and Language Standardisation)

Summary/Abstract: Balkan studies as a complex field of scholarship emerged from nineteenth-century Slavic studies and are closely connected with early field research. As a result of centuries of interaction among peoples of different genealogical backgrounds, the languages of the Balkan Peninsula have lost important inherited features and acquired typologically comparable characteristics. Scholarly descriptions present the Balkan Language Union as a centre of heterogeneous innovations, while the delimitation of the periphery of the Balkan Slavic Area remains a matter of debate. South Slavic Balkanisms result from the long-term accumulation and interaction of two multilingual and ethnoculturally profiled areal complexes: the South Slavic (genealogical dimension) and the Balkan (structural dimension). From a sociolinguistic perspective, this situation is closely linked to the contemporary status of dialects. With generational change among speakers of distinctive dialects, linguistic practice is increasingly standardised under the influence of the educational system, the written and spoken norms of the standard language, and the growing mobility of people in the globalised contemporary world. Balkan Slavic interlingual comparisons therefore require particular attention to the standard language as a generalised supra-dialectal system. It is essential to determine to what extent it incorporates Balkanisms, how these are treated by the norm, and how selectivity operates within the norm. Moreover, in the Balkan Slavic languages, similarities and differences across the axes dialect – oral communication – standard language do not fully coincide; in other words, the points of Balkanisation do not entirely overlap. The study spans a broad historical period, beginning with the key contributions of Jernej Kopitar and scholars associated with the Viennese School of Slavic Studies, including works written in and translated into Serbian and Bulgarian. It highlights research that has not been sufficiently appreciated in terms of the continuity and sustainability of knowledge across a wide scholarly spectrum.

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