Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Grammar: With Sociolinguistic Commentary - Brossura

Alexander, Ronelle

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0299211940 ISBN 13: 9780299211943

Casa editrice: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 2006

Riassunto

With the disintegration of Yugoslavia has come a shifting of linguistic boundaries, chiefly along political lines. Croats and Bosnian Muslims have attempted to introduce or revive characteristics that mark their languages as unique to their recently independent states of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Serbs have struggled with the question of whether to maintain the linguistic diversity of what used to be called Serbo-Croatian or to stress instead the distinctly Serbian features of that language.
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Grammar analyzes and clarifies this complex, dynamic situation. Addressing squarely the issues connected with the splintering of Serbo-Croatian into component languages, the volume provides teachers and learners with practical solutions and highlights the differences among the various languages as welt as the communicative core they all share.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Ronelle Alexander is professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of the two-volumeIntensive Bulgarian: A Textbook and Reference Grammar.

Product Description:

"Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Grammar" analyzes and clarifies the complex, dynamic language situation in the former Yugoslavia. Addressing squarely the issues connected with the splintering of Serbo-Croatian into component languages, this volume provides teachers and learners with practical solutions and highlights the differences among the languages as well as the communicative core that they all share. The first book to cover all three components of the post-Yugoslav linguistic environment, this reference manual features: thorough presentation of the grammar common to Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, with explication of all the major differences; examples from a broad range of spoken language and literature; new approaches to accent and clitic ordering, two of the most difficult points in BCS grammar; order of grammar presentation in chapters 1-16 keyed to corresponding lessons in "Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Textbook"; sociolinguistic commentary explicating the cultural and political context within which Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian function and have been defined; and, separate indexes of the grammar and sociolinguistic commentary, and of all words discussed in both.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0299211940
• ISBN 13: 9780299211943
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 464