Balkan and South Slavic Enclaves in Italy. Languages, Dialects, Identities

This volume is a collection of new writings dealing with some of the Balkan linguistic varieties spoken in North-Eastern, Central and Southern Italy. It brings together twenty-two papers which investigate the mutual influences between each of these varietes and their neighboring Italian dialects. Other contributions study common tendencies which do not just pertain to local contacts but are of greater significance for the history of linguistic and cultural contacts in Italy.

The contributions in this book originate from the conference “Balkan” enclaves in Italy. Languages, dialects, identities, held in Venice, Italy, from 26-28 November 2015. The conference was held on the occasion of the sixth annual meeting of the Commission for Balkan linguistics affiliated with the International Committee of Slavicists. Due to its high significance to society, the participants have set up their work so that it does not only concern linguistic matters, but also interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary ones. In this way, we tried to fully integrate the results of the work of many researchers from different universities and research institutions.