Defining the Central European convergence area
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Defining the Central European convergence area
Original language description
This chapter contributes to the defining and characterizing the Central European (CE) convergence area in which one finds the most significant convergence of Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages in Europe. Languages belonging to three different genetic stocks, Indo-European in its two branches Germanic (German) and Slavic (Czech and Slovak), and Finno-Ugric (Hungarian) show the large convergence in the common structuring of semantics and syntax as well as in the typological position of the word. Among the CE agreements, those in verbal morphosyntax are the most prominent: preverbation, periphrastic passive distinguishing the stative/resultative and processual forms, simple systems of past tenses (Section 4.3), ingressive periphrastic future and its relationship to simple present/future. In the Balkan convergence area (Sprachbund), the convergence is more conspicuous, the Balkan agreements being more typical and peculiar (no infinitive, doubling of pronouns and other repetitional techniques, etc.). Both convergence areas differ with respect to processes commonly regarded as happening throughout the whole European area. In relation to the rest of Europe, the Balkan Sprachbund is characterized by typical and peculiar features and consequently also Balkan Slavic shows more conspicuous substantial differences with regard to other Slavic languages. This is not the case with CE languages that are typologically an integral part of non-Balkan Europe. One of the results of this investigation is the finding that standardization influenced by Western cultural languages, subsumed under the term Standard Average European (SAE) has not had as strong impact on the European languages as is often argued.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Slavic on the Language Map of Europe. Historical and Areal-Typological Dimensions
ISBN
978-3-11-063497-6
Number of pages of the result
29
Pages from-to
261-289
Number of pages of the book
498
Publisher name
De Gruyter
Place of publication
Berlin
UT code for WoS chapter
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