The Effects of the Slavic–Balkan Contact on Lipovan Daco-Romanian

Abstract

This paper offers both a descriptive account and an analysis of the possible consequences of linguistic contact between the Daco-Romanian variety spoken by the Lipovan community and Russian (starting from a fieldwork-based corpus study) regarding (low) verb movement in neutral readings, ultimately reflected in the preference for [adv-v] word order. The situation identified in Lipovan Daco-Romanian will be compared with that of old and standard Daco-Romanian, Moldovan Daco-Romanian, and Russian.

Keywords

• Balkan languages
• Daco-Romance
• Lipovan Daco-Romanian
• verb movement
• Moldovan Daco-Romanian
• old Romanian