TY - BOOK ID - 32283535 TI - Language and identity in the Balkans : Serbo-Croatian and its disintegration PY - 2004 SN - 9780199208753 9780199258154 0199258155 0199208751 0191717673 1280837543 0191514551 1429469374 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Serbo-Croatian language KW - Linguistic change KW - Nationalism KW - Serbo-Croate (Langue) KW - Changement linguistique KW - Nationalisme KW - Change, Linguistic KW - Language change KW - Historical linguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Croato-Serbian language KW - Dalmatian language (Slavic) KW - Illyrian language (Slavic) KW - Slavic languages, Southern KW - Bosnian language KW - Croatian language KW - Serbian language KW - Variation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32283535 AB - After Yugoslavia collapsed in 1991 Serbo-Croatian disintegrated. Using his first-hand observations before and after communism Robert Greenberg describes how the languages of Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro came into being and shows how their genesis reflects ethnic, religious, and political identity. - ;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 stan ER -