Olivier Winistörfer

University of Zurich | UZH · Institute of Romance Languages/ Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Presenting several maps based on fieldwork data from Valais (Switzerland) and the Aosta Valley (Italy), we demonstrate that the spatial distribution of PAs and DE is more complex than reported in the literature: we complement the basic subdivision of Francoprovençal into two types, Francoprovençal A and B (cf. Kristol 2014, 2016), with a more nuanc...

The book includes preliminary materials for the biannual Balkan conference (Balkanskie chteniya / Series Balcanica 17. Moscow, Institute of Slavic Studies, April, 25–27, 2023), organized by the Centre for Linguocultural Research “Balcanica” and dedicated to definiteness / definiteness as one of the most typical categories of the Balkan Sprachbund.

In a previously published paper [Konior et al. 2019], which thematically led up to the present article, we explored the possibility of developing a quantitative tool for assessing the intrasystemic dialectal coherence and the degree of dialectal authenticity (preservation) for a particular variety of Slavic (and more broadly Balkan) dialectal speec...

The paper describes three corpora of different varieties of BS that are currently being developed with the goal of providing data for the analysis of the diatopic and diachronic variation in non-standard Balkan Slavic. The corpora includes spoken materials from Torlak, Macedonian dialects, as well as the manuscripts of pre-standardized Bulgarian. A...