Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Textbook

Author: Ronelle Alexander
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299236544
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 531

Book Description
Three official languages have emerged in the Balkan region that was formerly Yugoslavia: Croatian in Croatia, Serbian in Serbia, and both of these languages plus Bosnian in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Textbook introduces the student to all three. Dialogues and exercises are presented in each language, shown side by side for easy comparison; in addition, Serbian is rendered in both its Latin and its Cyrillic spellings. Teachers may choose a single language to use in the classroom, or they may familiarize students with all three. This popular textbook is now revised and updated with current maps, discussion of a Montenegrin language, advice for self-study learners, an expanded glossary, and an appendix of verb types. It also features: • All dialogues, exercises, and homework assignments available in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian • Classroom exercises designed for both small-group and full-class work, allowing for maximum oral participation • Reading selections written by Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian authors especially for this book • Vocabulary lists for each individual section and full glossaries at the end of the book • A short animated film, on an accompanying DVD, for use with chapter 15 • Brief grammar explanations after each dialogue, with a cross-reference to more detailed grammar chapters in the companion book, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Grammar.

Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Grammar

Author: Ronelle Alexander
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299211932
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 490

Book Description
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Grammar analyzes and clarifies the complex, dynamic language situation in the former Yugoslavia. Addressing squarely the issues connected with the splintering of Serbo-Croatian into component languages, this volume provides teachers and learners with practical solutions and highlights the differences among the languages as well as the communicative core that they all share. The first book to cover all three components of the post-Yugoslav linguistic environment, this reference manual features: · Thorough presentation of the grammar common to Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, with explication of all the major differences · Examples from a broad range of spoken language and literature · New approaches to accent and clitic ordering, two of the most difficult points in BCS grammar · Order of grammar presentation in chapters 1–16 keyed to corresponding lessons in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Textbook · "Sociolinguistic commentary" explicating the cultural and political context within which Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian function and have been defined · Separate indexes of the grammar and sociolinguistic commentary, and of all words discussed in both

Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian

Author: Željko Vrabec
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000431975
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 327

Book Description
Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian: An Essential Grammar is intended for beginners and intermediate students who need a reference that explains grammar in straightforward terms. It covers all the main areas of the modern single BCMS grammatical system in an accessible way, and free from jargon. When linguistic terminology is used, it is explained in layman’s terms, the logic of a rule is presented simply and near parallels are drawn with English. This book covers all the grammar necessary for everyday communication (reaching B1 and B2 of the CEFR, ACTFL Intermediate-Intermediate- Mid). The book comprises of extensive chapters on all parts of speech, the creation of different word forms (endings for cases in nouns and adjectives, case forms for pronouns, tenses, verbal modes, verbal aspect etc.) and their uses in sentences. Each rule is illustrated with numerous examples from everyday living language used in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. This is a unique reference book in English aimed at the level of language study that treats BCMS as a single grammar system, explaining and highlighting all the small differences between the four variants of this polycentric language.

Language and Identity in the Balkans

Author: Robert D. Greenberg
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191514551
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
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 standard of linguistic behaviour, extraordinary. Robert Greenberg describes how it happened. Basing his account on first-hand observations in the region before and since the communist demise, he evokes the drama and emotional discord as different factions sought to exploit, prevent, exacerbate, accelerate or just make sense of the chaotic and unpredictable language situation. His fascinating account offers insights into the nature of language change and the relation between language and identity. It also provides a uniquely vivid perspective on nationalism and identity politics in the former Yugoslavia.

Balkan Holocausts?

Author: David Bruce Macdonald
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719064678
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Balkan Holocausts? compares and contrasts Serbian and Croatian propaganda from 1986 to 1999, analyzing each group's contemporary interpretations of history and current events. It offers a detailed discussion of holocaust imagery and the history of victim-centered writing in nationalism theory, including the links between the comparative genocide debate, the so-called holocaust industry, and Serbian and Croatian nationalism. No studies on Yugoslavia have thus far devoted significant space to such analysis.

A Comparative Reference Grammar of Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian

Author: Danko Šipka
Publisher: Sky Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 768

Book Description

The Southern Slavs

Author: Nevill Forbes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Serbs
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
"At the outbreak of this war one often heard the question, What have we to do with Serbia 1' and to such a question it could until the end of July 1914 with a considerable amount of truth have been answered, Nothing.' There is scarcely any race in Europe of which most people in England know less than they do of the Serbs, and there is no European country with which we have had less intercourse. This ignorance is not altogether our own fault it is the result partly of geographical, partly of historical facts which have till now contributed to distract our attention from the western half of the Balkan peninsula."-- p.3.

Clitics in the wild

Author: Zrinka Kolaković
Publisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3961103364
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description
This collective monograph is the first data-oriented, empirical in-depth study of the system of clitics on Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. It fills the gap between the theoretical and normative literature by including solid data on variation found in dialects and spoken language and obtained from massive Web Corpora and speakers’ acceptability judgements. The authors investigate three primary sources of variation: inventory, placement and morphonological processes. A separate part of the book is dedicated to the phenomenon of clitic climbing, the major challenge for any syntactic theory. The theory of complexity serves as the explanation for the very diverse constraints on clitic climbing established in the empirical studies. It allows to construct a series of hierarchies where the factors relevant for predicting clitic climbing interact with each other. Thus, the study pushes our understanding of clitics away from fine-grained descriptions and syntactic generalisations towards a probabilistic modelling of syntax.

Introduction to the Croatian and Serbian Language

Author: Thomas F. Magner
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 410

Book Description
Introduction to the Croatian and Serbian Language provides an introduction to the language traditionally called Serbo-Croatian, although it is also referred to as Serbian or Croatian. There are two main variants of the language: Croatian (Western) and Serbian (Eastern). Unique in its equal treatment of the two principal variants, this book presents the two alphabets used (Latin and Cyrillic), the representation of lexical items specific to each variant, and pronunciation and syntactic differences. A dictionary is also included.

101 Humorous Serbian - Bosnian - Croatian Proverbs and Sayings

Author: Minja Pjesčic
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description
An indispensable illustrated guide for anyone taking their knowledge of Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian to the next level. Enrich your conversation, amuse and impress your friends and family with help of this collection of 101 most witty and colourful expressions, some common and others forgotten jewels.. Show your funny side...because everyone loves a merry company! The witty, the funny and the hilarious - this unique collection includes: - 101 carefully curated humorous expressions (in Latin and Cyrillic scripts) - Old and modern, marked as 'Popular', 'Familiar' or 'Old Jewel' - Commentary on meaning and usage in English- Literal translation for easier understanding and over 100 existing English equivalents- humorous alterations loved by young people- Over 60 IllustrationsIlustrovana kolekcija 101 saljive izreke i poslovice uključuje prevod, ekvivalente i objasnjenja na engleskom jeziku. Za svakog ima ponesto da se podsjeti ili nauči, jer... "saljiva druga druzina ljubi"!