%0 Book %T Language and identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and its disintegration %A Greenberg, Robert D. %D 2008 %7 Updated ed. %I Oxford University Press %C Oxford %@ 9780191717673 %G English %F 1652974024 %O Robert D. Greenberg %O Previous ed.: 2004. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record %X Language rifts in the Balkans are endemic, but the break-up of the Serbo-Croat language into four languages on the path towards mutual unintelligibility within a decade is, by any previous standard of linguistic behaviour, extraordinary. Robert Greenberg describes how it happened. %L 491.8'27 %K Serbo-Croatian language %K Linguistic change %K Balkan Peninsula %K Language and culture %K Language policy %K 20th century %K Serbo-Croatian language20th century %K Serbo-Croatian language21st century %K Linguistic changeBalkan Peninsula %9 Text %R 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208753.001.0001 %U https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208753.001.0001