02933nam 2200625 a 450 991045089670332120200520144314.01-280-83754-30-19-151455-11-4294-6937-4(CKB)1000000000411887(EBL)422587(OCoLC)476258189(SSID)ssj0000188854(PQKBManifestationID)12039455(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000188854(PQKBWorkID)10155182(PQKB)11308264(MiAaPQ)EBC422587(Au-PeEL)EBL422587(CaPaEBR)ebr10266521(CaONFJC)MIL83754(EXLCZ)99100000000041188720040816d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLanguage and identity in the Balkans[electronic resource] Serbo-Croatian and its disintegration /Robert D. GreenbergOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20041 online resource (199 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-925815-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-182) and index.Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Serbo-Croatian: United or not we fall; 3 Serbian: Isn't my language your language?; 4 Montenegrin: A mountain out of a mole hill?; 5 Croatian: We are separate but equal twins; 6 Bosnian: A three-humped camel?; 7 Conclusion; Appendix A: Text of the 1850 Literary Agreement; Appendix B: Text of the 1954 Novi Sad Agreement; Works cited; IndexAfter Yugoslavia collapsed in 1991 Serbo-Croatian disintegrated. Using his first-hand observations before and after communism Robert Greenberg describes how the languages of Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro came into being and shows how their genesis reflects ethnic, religious, and political identity. - ;Language rifts in the Balkans are endemic and have long been both a symptom of ethnic animosity and a cause for inflaming it. But the break-up of the Serbo-Croatian language into four languages on the path towards mutual unintelligibility within a decade is, by any previous stanSerbo-Croatian languageVariationSerbo-Croatian language20th centuryLinguistic changeBalkan PeninsulaNationalismBalkan PeninsulaElectronic books.Serbo-Croatian languageVariation.Serbo-Croatian languageLinguistic changeNationalism491.827Greenberg Robert D(Robert David)937367MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450896703321Language and identity in the Balkans2111414UNINA