The book deals in detail with previously understudied language contact settings in the Balkans (South East Europe) that present a continuum between ethnic and linguistic separation and symbiosis among groups of people. The studies in this volume achieve several aims: they critically assess the Balkan Sprachbund theory; they analyse general contact theories against the background of new, original, representative field and historical Greek, Albanian, Romance, Slavic and Judesmo data; they employ and contribute to recent methods of research on linguistic convergence in bilingual societies; they propose new general assessments of extra- and intralinguistic factors of Balkanization over the centuries; and they outline prospects for future research. The factors relevant to contact scenarios and linguistic change in the Balkans are identified and typologized through models such as those related to a balanced or unbalanced (socio)linguistic situation.

• Editor’s Preface
• Contents
• Contemporary Language Contacts in the Balkans: Situations and Outcomes
• Separation and Symbiosis between Slavs and Albanians as Continuum of Linguistic Contact Situations: New Challenges for New Data
• Mutual Understanding among Albanians, Slavs and Aromanians in Prespa, North Macedonia: Perfect Tense as a Perfect Tool
• “Balanced Language Contact” in Social Context: Velja Gorana in Southern Montenegro
• Symbiosis Suspectus: Palasa in Himara, Albania
• Minority within a Minority: Iabalcea and Carașova in Romania
• Evidence for Past Coexistence: Romance Stratum in Croatian Glagolitic Sources from Krk, Croatia
• Reconstructing Past Coexistence: Problems and Mysteries in the Multilingual History of Tsakonia, Greece
• Convergence and Failure to Converge in Relative Social Isolation: Balkan Judezmo
• Balkan Sprachbund Theory as a Research Paradigm
• Abbreviations
• Index of names
• Authors’ profiles Authors’ profiles
• Authors’ profiles Authors’ profiles