Re: [tied] Transhumance [Re: etyma for Crãciun]

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

>> It didn't save the case systems of Bulgarian and Macedonian. And in
>> those cases we what the cause was: Admixture of Turkic-speakers.
>
> I'd rather say, areal diffusion of morphological traits. Not all
> contact effects consist in creole-formation. The elimination of case
> forms was a prolonged and gradual process in Bulgarian, just as in
> English. It began about 1100 and reached completion about 1400. The
> earlier absorption of a Turkic (Old Bulgar) speech community did not
> "creolise" Slavic Bulgarian. Note, by the way, that while the
> Bulgarian/Macedonian dialects lost their declensions, their
> conjugation is exceptionally rich and more conservative than anywhere
> else in Slavic!

There are some other opinions that Bulgarian lost its case system due
assimilating the speakers of Romance/influence of Romance speakers on
Bulgarian.
Question: in OCS do we stil have the case system or it was already
colapsed?

Alex