Balcania et Slavia

Studi linguistici | Studies in Linguistics open access | peer reviewed

Aims & Scope
Balcania et Slavia. Studi linguistici | Studies in linguistics is a newly founded international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the modern Slavic and Balkan languages from the perspective of theoretical, areal-typological, and contrastive linguistics. The Journal intends to promote high-quality scholarly work on all topics relevant to the theoretical description and analysis of Slavic and Balkan languages in synchrony as well as in diachrony. The main areas of interest include, but are not limited to, their structural make-up, contact in space and time, variation and microvariation in the Balkan-Slavic area, first and second language acquisition in bilingual and multilingual environments. Although it is based at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, the Journal aims at providing an international academic platform where scholars and researchers working within both the traditional and the more recently developed experimental frameworks can share novel ideas and advance theoretical proposals in the field of Slavic and Balkan linguistics.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/BES/0 | e-ISSN 2785-3187 | Periodicity biannual | Language de, en, it, ru, uk

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Latest published issue

4 | 2 | 2024
March 20, 2025

21 117
Complementizer Drop and Clitic Climbing in Torlakian: Evidence from the Timok Variety
Mirjana Mirić, Boban Arsenijević
March 25, 2025 | 4 | 2 | 2024

6 41
Introduction
Iliyana Krapova, Svetlana Nistratova, Luisa Ruvoletto, Giuseppina Turano
March 25, 2025 | 4 | 2 | 2024

9 75
Модели деструктивных субстантивов русского и итальянского языков
Yuliya Rohava
March 25, 2025 | 4 | 2 | 2024

7 71
The Role of the Particle po- in the Comparison of Adjectives in Shtokavian Dialects
Aleksandar Trifunović
Feb. 20, 2025 | 4 | 1 | 2024

12 76
Genitival Phrases in Albanian and Romanian
Hysnie Haxhillari
Dec. 20, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2024

21 85
Лингвистические мутации коронавируса, или об истории означивания новой болезни
Julija Nikolaeva
Dec. 18, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2024

32 99
I corpora diacronici per la lingua russa: caratteristiche, modalità di funzionamento e possibilità di impiego
Beatrice Bindi
Dec. 18, 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2024

11 72
Южнославянские проклитики и история союза или
Niyaz Kireyev
Dec. 12, 2024 | 4 | 1 | 2024

11 83
The Discursive Functions of zar-Questions in Macedonian and Serbian
Liljana Mitkovska, Eleni Bužarovska
Dec. 12, 2024 | 4 | 1 | 2024

31 105
Agreement, Case and Definiteness in Balkan Existential Constructions
Alberto Frasson
Dec. 12, 2024 | 4 | 1 | 2024

10 58
Introduction
Gjorgje Bozhoviq, Aleksandar Trifunović
Dec. 12, 2024 | 4 | 1 | 2024

23 69
The Integration of Romanian Loan Verbs in the Bulgarian Dialect of Romania
Kenta Sugai
Dec. 12, 2024 | 4 | 1 | 2024

6 77
Introduction
Iliyana Krapova, Svetlana Nistratova, Luisa Ruvoletto, Giuseppina Turano
April 18, 2024 | 3 | 2 | 2023

33 173
The Diachrony of Subjunctive-Infinitive Competition in Balkan Slavic
Tomislav Sočanac
April 18, 2024 | 3 | 2 | 2023

12 108
A Glimpse of the Semantic Structure of the Bulgarian Preposition na
Snezha Tsoneva-Mathewson
April 5, 2024 | 3 | 2 | 2023

20 132
Sulle costruzioni relative non-restrittive del romeno (a confronto con l’italiano)
Guglielmo Cinque
April 4, 2024 | 3 | 2 | 2023

31 156
Предложные конструкции в резьянском микроязыке с частицами ta-/tu-/to-
Ljudmila Fedorova
Jan. 18, 2024 | 3 | 2 | 2023

52 244
Motivating a Morphome
Gjorgje Bozhoviq
Jan. 15, 2024 | 3 | 2 | 2023

16 100
Velle-Futurum im Albanischen
Bardhyl Demiraj
Sept. 14, 2023 | 3 | 1 | 2023

15 94
Introduction
Sept. 14, 2023 | 3 | 1 | 2023

14 92
Динамические изменения в русской грамматике
Igor' Sharonov
Sept. 14, 2023 | 3 | 1 | 2023

36 153
Expletive Dative clitics are situation pronouns
Stefan Milosavljević, Aleksandra Milosavljević
Sept. 14, 2023 | 3 | 1 | 2023

8 89
Кажимость в структуре обыденного vs. научного знания (на материале когнитивной семантики глагольных предикатов казаться, показаться)
Elena V. Cherntsova
Sept. 14, 2023 | 3 | 1 | 2023

17 129
L’imperfetto resiano fra tempo, aspetto e modo
Malinka Pila
Sept. 14, 2023 | 3 | 1 | 2023

5 166
Nomina agentis in the Dictionary of Technical Terminology by I. Shelud’ko and T. Sadovs’kyj
Liudmila Sydorenko
Jan. 27, 2023 | 2 | 2 | 2022

11 164
Functional And Gramatic Peculiarities Of Ukrainian Verbal Nouns With The Meaning Of Action Comparing To Other Slavic Languages
Olena Pchelintseva
Jan. 27, 2023 | 2 | 2 | 2022

11 148
Interlinguistic Relations and Linguistic Rights in Ukraine and Italy: A First Comparison
Salvatore Del Gaudio
Jan. 27, 2023 | 2 | 2 | 2022

20 162
The Church Slavonic Language of the Ukrainian Recension as Reflected in International Slavic Studies
Michael Moser
Jan. 27, 2023 | 2 | 2 | 2022

4 79
Introduction
Jan. 27, 2023 | 2 | 2 | 2022

29 188
Bilingualism in Ukraine and the Problems of National Identity
Svitlana Sokolova
Dec. 15, 2022 | 2 | 1 | 2022

7 127
Isomorphic Transliteration into the Latin Script of Old Ukrainian and Modern Ukrainian Texts: From the Historical Written Heritage to the Present Linguistic Technologies
Maksym O. Vakulenko
Dec. 15, 2022 | 2 | 1 | 2022

23 190
National Minorities and Ethnic Groups in Ukraine as Part of the Linguistic Identity Question
Oleg Rumyantsev
Dec. 15, 2022 | 2 | 1 | 2022

24 182
The Possessive Resultative Passive in Ukrainian
Ljudmila Popovic
Dec. 15, 2022 | 2 | 2 | 2022

13 151
Typology of Locative in Sentence Structure: Peculiarities of Sentence Modeling
Anatoliy Zahnitko
Dec. 15, 2022 | 2 | 2 | 2022

42 287
The Beginnings: Russian-Ukrainian War in European, Ukrainian, and Russian Media in 2014-15
Anastasiia Kryzhanivska
Dec. 15, 2022 | 2 | 1 | 2022

9 92
Introduction
Iliyana Krapova, Svetlana Nistratova, Luisa Ruvoletto, Giuseppina Turano
Dec. 15, 2022 | 2 | 1 | 2022

10 182
Early Latin Loan-Words in Modern Ukrainian and the Question of Toponymic Replications
Olena Ponomareva
Dec. 15, 2022 | 2 | 1 | 2022

25 296
On Etymology of Proto-Slavic Word for ‘Wound’
Artem Trofimov
Feb. 15, 2022 | 1 | 2 | 2021

25 176
Theme Vowels e and i in Russian: Implementing the Cartographic Approach
Vadim Dyachkov
Feb. 15, 2022 | 1 | 2 | 2021

21 254
Towards the Definition of the Bulgarian Word Order System
Anton Zimmerling
Feb. 15, 2022 | 1 | 2 | 2021

9 101
Introduction
Iliyana Krapova, Svetlana Nistratova, Luisa Ruvoletto, Giuseppina Turano
Feb. 15, 2022 | 1 | 2 | 2021

33 220
From Number Cycle to Split Plurality and Back in Albanian
Gjorgje Bozhoviq
Dec. 21, 2021 | 1 | 2 | 2021

21 254
Latino o cirillico? Le proposte di un alfabeto misto nelle visioni di unità jugoslava del periodo interbellico
Giustina Selvelli
Dec. 21, 2021 | 1 | 2 | 2021

41 256
Postposed Articles and DP Structures in Torlak
Jelena Živojinović, Beatrice Azzolina, Veronica Girolami
Dec. 20, 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2021

25 469
On the Diachrony of the Clitic Cluster in Bulgarian
Tsvetana Dimitrova
Dec. 20, 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2021

17 135
Introduction
Svetlana Nistratova, Giuseppina Turano, Luisa Ruvoletto, Iliyana Krapova
Dec. 20, 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2021

18 243
Language Ideologies and Multilingual Practices of Post-Soviet Migrants in Western Europe from a Translanguaging Perspective
Erzhen Khilkhanova
Dec. 20, 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2021

52 275
No Gender in ‘Gender Agreement’: On Declension Classes and Gender in Serbo-Croatian
Boban Arsenijević
Dec. 20, 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2021

21 189
It’s All Under Control!
Marco Biasio
Dec. 20, 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2021

Editors-in-Chief
Iliyana Krapova, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

Advisory Board
Francesco Altimari, Università della Calabria, Italia
Paola Maria Cotta Ramusino, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italia
Stephen M. Dickey, University of Kansas, USA
Maksim Anisimovič Krongauz, Higher School of Economics, Russia
Brian Joseph, Ohio State University, USA
Vladimir Aleksandrovič Plungian, Institute of Linguistics and V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
Aleksandr Jur’evič Rusakov, Academy of Sciences of Albania, Albania
Andrej Nikolaevič Sobolev, Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russi
Giuseppina Turano, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italia
Björn Wiemer, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Deutschland

Editorial Board
Pavel Duryagin, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Assia Assenova, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Tsvetana Dimitrova, IBE, Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Pavel Duryagin, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Gëzim Gurga, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italia
Flora Koleci, INALCO, France
Julia Nikolaeva, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italia
Laura Orazi, Università degli Studi di Macerata, Italia
Luisa Ruvoletto, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Linda Torresin, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italia

Managing Editor
Giuseppe Sofo, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

Submitted articles are initially assessed by the editorial board for eligibility after which they are considered for further reviewing. Articles that do not meet the Journal’s standards or do not correspond to the relevant areas outlined in Aims and scope will be returned to the author without further consideration. Articles are published after successfully passing the anonymous peer-reviewing by the editorial board and/or other external referees according to the subject matter. In order to facilitate the double-blinded reviewing process, authors are encouraged to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity. Each article receives two reviews; in case of contradictory reviews, the article is sent to a third reviewer. Article reviews are discussed by the editorial staff for approval.

To be published all manuscripts must comply with the following guidelines. In case of blatant violation of the guidelines, the editor (ECF) can suspend at any time the manuscript’s publication.

The instructions for the preparation of your manuscript, its abstract and its bibliography, are an integral part of the requirements for the manuscript submission. They are downloadable from the menu ‘Publish with us’ at the item ‘Editorial Guidelines’.

Manuscript Preparation
Document Basic Structure
Document Composition
Source Citation System
General Bibliography

To find out more, please contact Edizioni Ca’ Foscari’s editorial staff at ecf@unive.it.

CALL FOR PAPERS 2025

The journal Balcania et Slavia (BeS) invites contributions for the first and second issues to be published in 2025.

Possible areas for contributions include:

• Issues in the phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexical semantics of the modern Slavic and Balkan languages;

• Contrastive or area-typological studies of particular aspects in the syntax of Slavic and Balkan languages;

• Contact-induced properties and patterns of grammaticalization in the Slavic and the Balkan linguistic areas; historical impact of language contact on grammaticalization processes.

• Morphosyntactic variation and micro-variation in the Balkan-Slavic area from a synchronic and diachronic perspective.

Potential authors can submit (a) original research papers or (b) 'state of the art' articles that critically evaluate current theoretical concepts and approaches in the field of Slavic and Balkan linguistics.

Space limitations:

The submitted articles should not exceed 5,000-6,000 words, 30,000-35,000 characters, spaces included.

Deadlines

Abstract Submission – April 7, 2025 (issue 1) or July 15, 2025 (issue 2)

Articles Submission – May 15, 2025 (issue 1) or September 15, 2025 (issue 2)

Prospective publication – June 2025 (issue 1) and December 2025 (issue 2)

All contributions must be submitted in *.docx format and must respect the editorial and bibliographical norms of the journal (for information, please visit https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/balcania-et-slavia). A PDF copy of the manuscript should also be submitted if it contains special symbols, phonetic transcription, or characters from languages other than English.

Manuscripts will be accepted preferably in English. Italian and Russian, as well as any other Slavic language are also admissible (consistently with the topic of the contribution). For more information, please write to balcaniaetslavia@unive.it.

Go to the upload area to submit your proposal for issue 1

https://peerflow.edizionicafoscari.it/abstracts/form/journal/23/359

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Go to the upload area to submit your proposal for issue 2

https://peerflow.edizionicafoscari.it/abstracts/form/journal/23/360

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Ethical Code of Balcania et Slavia

Balcania et Slavia is a peer-reviewed scientific journal whose policy is inspired by the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) Ethical Code. See the Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Publisher’s responsibilities

The Publisher must provide the Journal with adequate resources and the guidance of experts, in order to carry out its role in the most professional way, aiming at the highest quality standard.

The Publisher must have a written agreement that defines the relationship with the owner of the Journal and/or the Editor-in-Chief. The agreement must comply with the Code of Behavior for Publishers of Scientific Journals, as established by COPE.

The relationship among the Editor-in-Chief, the Advisory Board and the Publisher is based on the principle of publishing independence.

Editors’ responsibilities

The Editor-in-Chief and the Advisory Board of Balcania et Slavia alone are responsible for the decision to publish the articles submitted.

Submitted articles, after having been checked for plagiarism by means of the anti-plagiarism software Compilatio that is used by the University and is made available to us, will be sent to at least two reviewers. Final acceptance presumes the implementation of possible amendments, as required by the reviewers and under the supervision of the Balcania et Slavia Editor-in-Chief.

The Balcania et Slavia Editor-in-Chief and Advisory Board must evaluate each submitted paper in compliance with the Journalʼs policy, i.e. exclusively on the basis of its scientific content, without discrimination of race, sex, gender, creed, ethnic origin, citizenship, or the scientific, academic and political position of the Authors.

Allegations of misconduct

If the Balcania et Slavia Editor-in-Chief and Advisory Board notice (or receive notifications of) mistakes or inaccuracies, conflict of interest or plagiarism in a published article, they will immediately warn the Author and the Publisher and will undertake the necessary actions to resolve the issue. They will do their best to correct the published content whenever they are informed that it contains scientific errors or that the authors have committed unethical or illegal acts in connection with their published work. If necessary, they will withdraw the article or publish a recantation.

All complaints are handled in accordance with the guidelines published by the COPE.

Concerns and complaints must be addressed to the following e-mail ecf_support@unive.it. The letter should contain the following information:

complainant’s personal information;
title, author(s), publication date, DOI;
complaint(s);
declaration that the complainant has no conflict of interest, or declaration of an actual or potential conflict of interest.

Authors’ responsibilities

Stylesheet

Authors must follow the Guidelines for Authors to be downloaded from the Balcania et Slavia website.

No multiple submissions

Authors must explicitly state that their work is original in all its parts and that the submitted paper has not been previously published, nor submitted to other journals, until the entire evaluation process is completed. Since no paper gets published without significant revision, earlier dissemination in conference proceedings or working papers does not preclude consideration for publication, but Authors are expected to fully disclose publication/dissemination of the material in other closely related publications, so that the overlap can be evaluated by the Balcania et Slavia Editor-in-Chief.

Authorship

Authors are strongly encouraged to use their ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript. This will ensure the authors’ visibility and correct citation of their work.

Authorship must be correctly attributed; all those who have given a substantial contribution to the design, organisation and accomplishment of the research the article is based on, must be indicated as Co-Authors. Please ensure that: the order of the author names is correct; the names of all authors are present and correctly spelled, and that affiliations are up-to-date.

The respective roles of each co-author should be described in a footnote. The statement that all authors have approved the final version should be included in the disclosure.

Conflicts of interest and financing

Authors, under their own responsibility, must avoid any conflict of interest affecting the results obtained or the interpretations suggested. The Balcania et Slavia Editor-in-Chief will give serious and careful consideration to suggestions of cases in which, due to possible conflict of interest, an Author’s work should not be reviewed by a specific scholar. Authors should indicate any financing agency or the project the article stems from.

Quotations

Authors must see to it that all works consulted be properly quoted. If works or words of others are used, they have to be properly paraphrased or duly quoted. Quotations between “double quotes” (or «angled quotation marks» if the text is written in a language other than English) must reproduce the exact wording of the source; under their own responsibility, Authors should carefully refrain from disguising a restyling of the source’s wording, as though it was the original formulation.

Any form of excessive, inappropriate or unnecessary self-citation, as well as any other form of citation manipulation, are strongly discouraged.

Ethical Committee

Whenever required, the research protocols must be authorised in advance by the Ethical Committee of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Emendations

When Authors find a mistake or an inaccuracy in their own article, they must immediately warn the Balcania et Slavia Editor-in-Chief, providing all the information needed to make the due adjustments.

Reviewers’ responsibilities

Goal

By means of the peer-review procedure, reviewers assist the Balcania et Slavia Editor-in-Chief and Advisory Board in taking decisions on the articles submitted. They are expected to offer the Authors suggestions as to possible adjustments aimed at improving their contribution submission.

Timing and conflicts of interest

If a reviewer does not feel up to the task of doing a given review, or if she/he is unable to read the work within the agreed schedule, she/he should notify the Balcania et Slavia Editor-in-Chief. Reviewers must not accept articles for which there is a conflict of interest due to previous contributions or to a competition with a disclosed author (or with an author they believe to have identified).

Confidentiality

The content of the reviewed work must be considered confidential and must not be used without explicit authorisation by the Author, who is to be contacted via the editor-in-chief. Any confidential information obtained during the peer review process should not be used for other purposes.

Collaborative attitude

Reviewers should see themselves not as adversaries but as advocates for the field. Any comment must be done in a collaborative way and from an objective point of view. Reviewers should clearly motivate their comments and keep in mind the Golden Rule of Reviewing: “Review for others as you would have others review for you”.

Plagiarism

Reviewers should report any similarity or overlapping of the work under analysis with other works known to them.

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