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-Croa

This volume investigates the complex relationship between language and identity of the peoples speaking Romance languages in the Balkans, offering a thorough so

This book asks why several ethnic and linguistic groups in Central Europe and the Balkans have not yet been legally recognized as national minorities. Some of t

The fundamental contrast between convergent and divergent tendencies in the development of Balkan cultural identity can be seen as an important determinative bo