Neka: How Macedonian differs from both Bulgarian and the former serbo-Croatian

Friedman,  Victor A.

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Juznoslovenski filolog 2022 Volume 78, Issue 2, Pages: 423-428
https://doi.org/10.2298/JFI2202423F
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Neka: How Macedonian differs from both Bulgarian and the former serbo-Croatian

Friedman Victor A. (University of Chicago, Department of Linguistics + La Trobe University, Department of Languages and Linguistics)

The Common Slavic particle that is realized in sub-Alpine South Slavic as neka has distinctive developments in Macedonian, Bulgarian, and the former Serbo-Croatian. The particle has its broadest usage in the former Serbo-Croatian, which appears to be, at least in part, due to contacts with Italo-Romance. Macedonian is more conservative than Bulgarian, and thus occupies a unique place within sub-Alpine South Slavic. At the same time, Bulgarian is less Balkan than Macedonian in that the latter permits a bare direct object without a verb.

Keywords: Balkan linguistics, hortative, jussive, Slavic, particles

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