The Synchrony and Diachrony of the Balkan Infinitive: A Study in Areal, General and Historical Linguistics

by Brian D. Joseph

This study offers a comprehensive and illuminating account of one of the characteristics shared to some degree by the languages of the Balkan peninsula - Greek, Albanian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Romanian - namely the loss of the infinitive and its replacement by finite verb forms. Dr Joseph meticulously examines the documentary evidence for this loss and, in the light of his findings, many of the oversimplifications, misinterpretations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521105331
• ISBN13: 9780521105330
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"