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Acknowledgements | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Overview | p. 1 |
Goals and methodology | p. 4 |
Language as a marker of ethnic identity | p. 6 |
Language in the context of Balkan nationalism | p. 9 |
Serbo-Croatian: A dying tongue? | p. 13 |
Serbo-Croatian: United or not we fall | p. 16 |
Introduction: The precarious language union | p. 16 |
Models for unified languages | p. 18 |
Centrally monitored unity | p. 20 |
Government-imposed unity | p. 21 |
Pluricentric unity | p. 23 |
Controversies connected with Serb/Croat language accords | p. 24 |
The Literary Agreement (1850) | p. 24 |
The Novi Sad Agreement (1954) | p. 29 |
The power of competing dialects | p. 32 |
The Stokavian dialects and ethnicity: An overview | p. 34 |
Dilemmas of dialects: Ownership and citizenship? | p. 35 |
Standard pronunciations, variants, or idioms | p. 39 |
The writing on the wall: Alphabets and writing systems | p. 41 |
A multiplicity of alphabets | p. 41 |
Spell-bound: Clashes over spelling rules | p. 44 |
Vocabulary: A reflection of divergent approaches to identity | p. 47 |
Croatian purism | p. 48 |
The supremacy of the vernacular for the Serbs | p. 50 |
Divergent attitudes towards foreign borrowings | p. 51 |
The turbulent history of the language union: A chronology | p. 54 |
Serbian: Isn't my language your language? | p. 58 |
Introduction | p. 58 |
One language, two variants | p. 59 |
The two alphabets | p. 60 |
The two pronunciations | p. 63 |
The factions in Serbian linguistic circles | p. 65 |
Orthographic chaos: 1993-1994 | p. 69 |
The battle between the ekavian and ijekavian dialects | p. 77 |
The triumph of the academies | p. 83 |
Conclusions | p. 85 |
Montenegrin: A mountain out of a mole hill? | p. 88 |
Introduction | p. 88 |
Montenegro's dialects and its literary traditions | p. 91 |
The sociolinguistics of dialect geography | p. 92 |
The literary traditions in Montenegro | p. 94 |
Montenegro's two factions | p. 97 |
The Neo-Vukovites | p. 98 |
Nikcevic and his supporters | p. 99 |
The proposed standard | p. 102 |
New letters and new pronunciations | p. 103 |
The expansion of ijekavian features | p. 104 |
Conclusions | p. 105 |
Croatian: We are separate but equal twins | p. 109 |
Introduction | p. 109 |
Croatian from Broz to Brozovic | p. 111 |
Contributions of the "Croat Vukovites": Traitors or Croat patriots? | p. 111 |
Tito's Yugoslavia: Croatian and not Croato-Serbian | p. 115 |
The new Croatian | p. 118 |
The Cakavian and Kajkavian lexical stock | p. 120 |
Infusing the new standard with native Croatian forms | p. 122 |
Recent orthographic controversies | p. 125 |
The prescriptivist Pravopis | p. 125 |
The descriptivist Pravopis | p. 128 |
Conclusions | p. 132 |
Bosnian: A three-humped camel? | p. 135 |
Introduction | p. 135 |
History is on our side: The origins of the Bosnian language | p. 137 |
It's all in the name: Bosnian or Bosniac | p. 139 |
The peculiarities of the new Bosnian standard | p. 142 |
The dialectal base | p. 143 |
Is Bosnian a mixture of Serbian and Croatian? | p. 146 |
The first Symposium on the Bosnian language | p. 150 |
Closing ranks: A new charter for a new century | p. 155 |
Conclusions | p. 156 |
Conclusion | p. 159 |
The Serbo-Croatian successor languages: Shared obstacles and divergent solutions | p. 159 |
My language, my land | p. 164 |
Postscript: Developments since 2004 | p. 168 |
Observations four years later | p. 168 |
Scholarly attitudes towards the new language realities in ex-Yugoslavia | p. 168 |
Croatia: A round table controversy | p. 171 |
Bosnia-Herzegovina: two new dictionaries on their way | p. 175 |
Montenegro: The pains of language separation | p. 177 |
Serbia: Recent perspectives | p. 180 |
Final remarks and future research | p. 181 |
Text of the 1850 Literary Agreement | p. 183 |
Text of the 1954 Novi Sad Agreement | p. 187 |
Works cited | p. 190 |
Index | p. 199 |
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