Balkan Sprachbund aspects of Macedonian grammar

Abstract

The multi-lingual environment on the Balkans and its intensive contact with non-Slavic languages caused Macedonian to drift away from Common Slavic more than the other Slavic languages and to share with non-Slavic Balkan languages a number of typological features, referred to as Balkan Sprachbund features. Its verbal system is analytical to a considerable degree and its nominal case system is disintegrated. It has a general tendency towards explicit marking of grammatical functions with specific function words and towards uniformity of morphological markers.