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  • 2 - History of Balkan Linguistics

  • Victor A. Friedman, University of Chicago, Brian D. Joseph, Ohio State University
  • Book:
    The Balkan Languages
    Published online:
    31 May 2025
    Print publication:
    26 June 2025, pp 65-96
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  • Summary

    By way of recognizing the considerable scholarship that makes the Balkans the best-studied and best-understood sprachbund (contact area), and by way of establishing a baseline of knowledge about the Balkans from a linguistic perspective, Balkan linguistics as a field is surveyed here from an historical perspective, with key scholars and their important works highlighted. Attention is given to pre-modern treatments and to the early modern era of Balkan linguistics, with a particular focus on a watershed moment for the field, the publication of Kristian Sandfeld’s Linguistique Balkanique (1930) and the very rich work done in the modern era after Sandfeld. Meta-questions such as which groups to include in discussions of Balkan linguistics and the relation of the Balkans to (Western) Europe are addressed as well.