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

> 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.

Turkic *has* cases so that is not the reason.
In Macedonian some cases could have colapsed also because phonetic
development contributed to the sincretism:
N. sg. noga < noga
A. sg. noga < nogoN (oN > a in Mac.)
I. sg. noga < nogo:N < nogojoN

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