NEKA: HOW MACEDONIAN DIFFERS FROM BOTH BULGARIAN AND THE FORMER SERBO-CROATIAN
NEKA: HOW MACEDONIAN DIFFERS FROM BOTH BULGARIAN AND THE FORMER SERBO-CROATIAN

Summary/Abstract: The Common Slavic particle that is realized in sub-Alpine South Slavic as neka has distinctive developments in Macedonian, Bulgarian, and the former Serbo-Croatian. The particle has its broadest usage in the former Serbo-Croatian, which appears to be, at least in part, due to contacts with Italo-Romance. Macedonian is more conservative than Bulgarian, and thus occupies a unique place within sub-Alpine South Slavic. At the same time, Bulgarian is less Balkan than Macedonian in that the latter permits a bare direct object without a verb.

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