Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration (Hardcover)

Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences University of New Haven Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Robert D Greenberg
 9780199258154
0-19-925815-5

Against a backdrop of the ethnic strife in the Balkans and the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1991, 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. His first-hand observations before and after Communism offer insights into the nature of language change and the relation between language and identity.