Between Separation and Symbiosis. South Eastern European Languages and Cultures in Contact

The book, edited by Andrey N. Sobolev, brings together experts in Balkan linguistics based at the Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, with the addition of Professor Brian D. Joseph from the Ohio State University. This stimulating volume deals with the topic of language contact in Southeast Europe, focusing on patterns of separation and symbiosis/convergence among ethnic groups and their languages in different settings of the peninsula: the Croatian island of Krk in the Kvarner gulf, the Sephardic Jewish diaspora, Southern Albania, Eastern Albania, Southern Montenegro, Prespa (Republic of North Macedonia), Romanian Banat, and the Tsakonia area in Peloponnese, Greece.