{"title":"Neka: How Macedonian differs from both Bulgarian and the former serbo-Croatian","authors":"V. Friedman","doi":"10.2298/jfi2202423f","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":30153,"journal":{"name":"Juznoslovenski Filolog","volume":"370 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Juznoslovenski Filolog","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2298/jfi2202423f","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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.