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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Overview | |
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| Goals and methodology | |
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| Language as a marker of ethnic identity | |
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| Language in the context of Balkan nationalism | |
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| Serbo-Croatian: A dying tongue? | |
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| Serbo-Croatian: United or not we fall | |
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| Introduction: The precarious language union | |
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| Models for unified languages | |
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| Centrally monitored unity | |
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| Government-imposed unity | |
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| Pluricentric unity | |
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| Controversies connected with Serb/Croat language accords | |
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| The Literary Agreement (1850) | |
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| The Novi Sad Agreement (1954) | |
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| The power of competing dialects | |
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| The Stokavian dialects and ethnicity: An overview | |
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| Dilemmas of dialects: Ownership and citizenship? | |
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| Standard pronunciations, variants, or idioms | |
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| The writing on the wall: Alphabets and writing systems | |
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| A multiplicity of alphabets | |
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| Spell-bound: Clashes over spelling rules | |
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| Vocabulary: A reflection of divergent approaches to identity | |
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| Croatian purism | |
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| The supremacy of the vernacular for the Serbs | |
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| Divergent attitudes towards foreign borrowings | |
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| The turbulent history of the language union: A chronology | |
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| Serbian: Isn't my language your language? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| One language, two variants | |
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| The two alphabets | |
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| The two pronunciations | |
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| The factions in Serbian linguistic circles | |
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| Orthographic chaos: 1993-1994 | |
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| The battle between the ekavian and ijekavian dialects | |
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| The triumph of the academies | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Montenegrin: A mountain out of a mole hill? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Montenegro's dialects and its literary traditions | |
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| The sociolinguistics of dialect geography | |
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| The literary traditions in Montenegro | |
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| Montenegro's two factions | |
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| The Neo-Vukovites | |
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| Nikcevic and his supporters | |
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| The proposed standard | |
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| New letters and new pronunciations | |
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| The expansion of ijekavian features | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Croatian: We are separate but equal twins | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Croatian from Broz to Brozovic | |
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| Contributions of the "Croat Vukovites": Traitors or Croat patriots? | |
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| Tito's Yugoslavia: Croatian and not Croato-Serbian | |
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| The new Croatian | |
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| The Cakavian and Kajkavian lexical stock | |
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| Infusing the new standard with native Croatian forms | |
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| Recent orthographic controversies | |
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| The prescriptivist Pravopis | |
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| The descriptivist Pravopis | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Bosnian: A three-humped camel? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| History is on our side: The origins of the Bosnian language | |
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| It's all in the name: Bosnian or Bosniac | |
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| The peculiarities of the new Bosnian standard | |
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| The dialectal base | |
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| Is Bosnian a mixture of Serbian and Croatian? | |
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| The first Symposium on the Bosnian language | |
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| Closing ranks: A new charter for a new century | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Serbo-Croatian successor languages: Shared obstacles and divergent solutions | |
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| My language, my land | |
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| Postscript: Developments since 2004 | |
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| Observations four years later | |
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| Scholarly attitudes towards the new language realities in ex-Yugoslavia | |
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| Croatia: A round table controversy | |
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| Bosnia-Herzegovina: two new dictionaries on their way | |
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| Montenegro: The pains of language separation | |
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| Serbia: Recent perspectives | |
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| Final remarks and future research | |
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| Text of the 1850 Literary Agreement | |
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| Text of the 1954 Novi Sad Agreement | |
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| Works cited | |
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| Index | |