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 <p>A proposed linguistic area involving Anatolia is the Aegean-Anatolian one (for a history of studies see Bianconi 2021, 11-13), a hypothetical [[league | Bund]] that aims at explaining some controversial similarities between Greek and the languages of the Anatolian branch of [[language family | Indo-European]].</p>
-<p>While several scholars, starting with Emmanuel Laroche in the 1970s, raised doubts about the existence of an area of intensive interference involving Greece and Anatolia, other examples exist that are less controversial. A good example is offered by the area of Southern Mesopotamia in the III millennium BCE, in which Sumerian probably influenced the phonology and the clause architecture of Akkadian (turning it into an unusual SOV language within the Semitic branch of [[language family || Afro-Asiatic]]; cf. Deutscher 2007, 20-21).</p>
+<p>While several scholars, starting with Emmanuel Laroche in the 1970s, raised doubts about the existence of an area of intensive interference involving Greece and Anatolia, other examples exist that are less controversial. A good example is offered by the area of Southern Mesopotamia in the III millennium BCE, in which Sumerian probably influenced the phonology and the clause architecture of Akkadian (turning it into an unusual SOV language within the Semitic branch of [[language family | Afro-Asiatic]]; cf. Deutscher 2007, 20-21).</p>
 ==References==
 Bianconi, M. 2021. "There and back again": A Hundred Years of Graeco-Anatolian Comparative Studies. In: Linguistic and Cultural Interactions between Greece and Anatolia, Leiden, pp. 8-39; Deutscher, G. 2007. Syntactic Change in Akkadian The Evolution of Sentential Complementation, Oxford. Matras, Y. 2009. Language Contact, Cambridge.

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 <p>A proposed linguistic area involving Anatolia is the Aegean-Anatolian one (for a history of studies see Bianconi 2021, 11-13), a hypothetical [[league | Bund]] that aims at explaining some controversial similarities between Greek and the languages of the Anatolian branch of [[language family | Indo-European]].</p>
-<p>While several scholars, starting with Emmanuel Laroche in the 1970s, raised doubts about the existence of an area of intensive interference involving Greece and Anatolia, other examples exist that are less controversial. A good example is offered by the area of Southern Mesopotamia in the III millennium BCE, in which Sumerian probably influenced the phonology and the clause architecture of Akkadian (turning it into an unusual SOV language within the Semitic branch of Afro-Asiatic; cf. Deutscher 2007, 20-21).</p>
+<p>While several scholars, starting with Emmanuel Laroche in the 1970s, raised doubts about the existence of an area of intensive interference involving Greece and Anatolia, other examples exist that are less controversial. A good example is offered by the area of Southern Mesopotamia in the III millennium BCE, in which Sumerian probably influenced the phonology and the clause architecture of Akkadian (turning it into an unusual SOV language within the Semitic branch of [[language family || Afro-Asiatic]]; cf. Deutscher 2007, 20-21).</p>
 ==References==
 Bianconi, M. 2021. "There and back again": A Hundred Years of Graeco-Anatolian Comparative Studies. In: Linguistic and Cultural Interactions between Greece and Anatolia, Leiden, pp. 8-39; Deutscher, G. 2007. Syntactic Change in Akkadian The Evolution of Sentential Complementation, Oxford. Matras, Y. 2009. Language Contact, Cambridge.

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 ==Example==
-<p>A proposed linguistic area involving Anatolia is the Aegean-Anatolian one (for a history of studies see Bianconi 2021, 11-13), a hypothetical [[league | Bund]] that aims at explaining some controversial similarities between Greek and the languages of the Anatolian branch of Indo-European.</p>
+<p>A proposed linguistic area involving Anatolia is the Aegean-Anatolian one (for a history of studies see Bianconi 2021, 11-13), a hypothetical [[league | Bund]] that aims at explaining some controversial similarities between Greek and the languages of the Anatolian branch of [[language family | Indo-European]].</p>
 <p>While several scholars, starting with Emmanuel Laroche in the 1970s, raised doubts about the existence of an area of intensive interference involving Greece and Anatolia, other examples exist that are less controversial. A good example is offered by the area of Southern Mesopotamia in the III millennium BCE, in which Sumerian probably influenced the phonology and the clause architecture of Akkadian (turning it into an unusual SOV language within the Semitic branch of Afro-Asiatic; cf. Deutscher 2007, 20-21).</p>
 ==References==
 Bianconi, M. 2021. "There and back again": A Hundred Years of Graeco-Anatolian Comparative Studies. In: Linguistic and Cultural Interactions between Greece and Anatolia, Leiden, pp. 8-39; Deutscher, G. 2007. Syntactic Change in Akkadian The Evolution of Sentential Complementation, Oxford. Matras, Y. 2009. Language Contact, Cambridge.

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 ==Article==
-<p>The concept of linguistic area generally refers to a geographical region in which languages influences each other on the different levels of lexicon and grammar. As many such areas have been observed in the modern world, it is one of the most variable and blurry concepts both in linguistic and in cultural studies (see Matras 2009, 286-296, for discussion). To some extent, the concept seems to be interchangeable with that of “language league” (Sprachbund), while, on the other hand, this latter label often indicates a particularly intensive area of [[grammatical interference]], which is a rather uncommon case to observe when working on corpus languages.</p>
+<p>The concept of linguistic area generally refers to a geographical region in which languages influences each other on the different levels of lexicon and grammar. As many such areas have been observed in the modern world, it is one of the most variable and blurry concepts both in linguistic and in cultural studies (see Matras 2009, 286-296, for discussion). To some extent, the concept seems to be interchangeable with that of “[[league| language league]]” (Sprachbund), while, on the other hand, this latter label often indicates a group of languages in a particularly intensive area of [[grammatical interference]], which is a rather uncommon case to observe when working on corpus languages.</p>
 In the environment of the ancient world, areas of intensive lexical exchange certainly existed (Anatolia, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East provide several examples). However, cases of long distance grammatical interference are not easily identified, nor was the existence of a proper [[mixed-language]] ever documented. Therefore, in the framework of reference employed by the PALaC project, a linguistic area is defined in a milder fashion as an area featuring one of the following:
 # intensive exchange of linguistic material (lexical or grammatical);
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 ==Example==
-<p>A proposed linguistic area involving Anatolia is the Aegean-Anatolian one (for a history of studies see Bianconi 2021, 11-13), a hypothetical [[leage | Bund]] that aims at explaining some controversial similarities between Greek and the languages of the Anatolian branch of Indo-European.</p>
+<p>A proposed linguistic area involving Anatolia is the Aegean-Anatolian one (for a history of studies see Bianconi 2021, 11-13), a hypothetical [[league | Bund]] that aims at explaining some controversial similarities between Greek and the languages of the Anatolian branch of Indo-European.</p>
 <p>While several scholars, starting with Emmanuel Laroche in the 1970s, raised doubts about the existence of an area of intensive interference involving Greece and Anatolia, other examples exist that are less controversial. A good example is offered by the area of Southern Mesopotamia in the III millennium BCE, in which Sumerian probably influenced the phonology and the clause architecture of Akkadian (turning it into an unusual SOV language within the Semitic branch of Afro-Asiatic; cf. Deutscher 2007, 20-21).</p>
 ==References==
 Bianconi, M. 2021. "There and back again": A Hundred Years of Graeco-Anatolian Comparative Studies. In: Linguistic and Cultural Interactions between Greece and Anatolia, Leiden, pp. 8-39; Deutscher, G. 2007. Syntactic Change in Akkadian The Evolution of Sentential Complementation, Oxford. Matras, Y. 2009. Language Contact, Cambridge.

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 ==Example==
-<p>A proposed linguistic area involving Anatolia is the Aegean-Anatolian one (for a history of studies see Bianconi 2021, 11-13), a hypothetical Bund that aims at explaining some controversial similarities between Greek and the languages of the Anatolian branch of Indo-European.</p>
+<p>A proposed linguistic area involving Anatolia is the Aegean-Anatolian one (for a history of studies see Bianconi 2021, 11-13), a hypothetical [[leage | Bund]] that aims at explaining some controversial similarities between Greek and the languages of the Anatolian branch of Indo-European.</p>
 <p>While several scholars, starting with Emmanuel Laroche in the 1970s, raised doubts about the existence of an area of intensive interference involving Greece and Anatolia, other examples exist that are less controversial. A good example is offered by the area of Southern Mesopotamia in the III millennium BCE, in which Sumerian probably influenced the phonology and the clause architecture of Akkadian (turning it into an unusual SOV language within the Semitic branch of Afro-Asiatic; cf. Deutscher 2007, 20-21).</p>
 ==References==
 Bianconi, M. 2021. "There and back again": A Hundred Years of Graeco-Anatolian Comparative Studies. In: Linguistic and Cultural Interactions between Greece and Anatolia, Leiden, pp. 8-39; Deutscher, G. 2007. Syntactic Change in Akkadian The Evolution of Sentential Complementation, Oxford. Matras, Y. 2009. Language Contact, Cambridge.

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	==References==		==References==
−	Bianconi, M. 2021. "There and back again": A Hundred Years of Graeco-Anatolian Comparative Studies. In: Linguistic and Cultural Interactions between Greece and Anatolia, Leiden, pp. 8-39; Deutscher, G. 2007. Syntactic Change in Akkadian The Evolution of Sentential Complementation, Oxford~~. Giusfredi, F. and Merlin, S. 2018. A contact-based study of the languages and cultures of Pre-Classical Anatolia: the project PALaC, News from the lands of the Hittites 2018, 95-104~~. Matras, Y. 2009. Language Contact, Cambridge.	+	Bianconi, M. 2021. "There and back again": A Hundred Years of Graeco-Anatolian Comparative Studies. In: Linguistic and Cultural Interactions between Greece and Anatolia, Leiden, pp. 8-39; Deutscher, G. 2007. Syntactic Change in Akkadian The Evolution of Sentential Complementation, Oxford. Matras, Y. 2009. Language Contact, Cambridge.

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 ==Article==
-<p>The concept of linguistic area is one of the most variable and blurry ones in linguistic and cultural studies. It emerged in the first decades of the Nineteenth century in the environment of the functionalist schools of Europe, but was better defined in the second half of the century with the studies on the Balkan league and on the Standard Average European area (Matras 2009, 286-296). To some extent, it seems to be interchangeable with that of “language league” (Sprachbund), while, on the other hand, this latter label indicates a particularly intensive area of [[grammatical interference]], which is a rather uncommon case especially in the ancient world (Giusfredi - Merlin 2018, 101).</p>
+<p>The concept of linguistic area generally refers to a geographical region in which languages influences each other on the different levels of lexicon and grammar. As many such areas have been observed in the modern world, it is one of the most variable and blurry concepts both in linguistic and in cultural studies (see Matras 2009, 286-296, for discussion). To some extent, the concept seems to be interchangeable with that of “language league” (Sprachbund), while, on the other hand, this latter label often indicates a particularly intensive area of [[grammatical interference]], which is a rather uncommon case to observe when working on corpus languages (Giusfredi - Merlin 2018, 101).</p>
-In the environment of the ancient world, areas of intensive lexical exchange existed (Anatolia, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East provide several examples). However, cases of long distance grammatical interference are not easily identified, nor was the existence of a proper [[mixed-language]] ever documented. Therefore, in the framework of reference employed by the PALaC project, a linguistic area is defined in a milder fashion as an area featuring one of the following:
+In the environment of the ancient world, areas of intensive lexical exchange certainly existed (Anatolia, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East provide several examples). However, cases of long distance grammatical interference are not easily identified, nor was the existence of a proper [[mixed-language]] ever documented. Therefore, in the framework of reference employed by the PALaC project, a linguistic area is defined in a milder fashion as an area featuring one of the following:
 # intensive exchange of linguistic material (lexical or grammatical);
 # occasional shared structural traits that:
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 ## are not shared by other branches of the language family to which the involved languages belong, or other neighboring languages;
 ## are not typologically prevalent in a [[polygenetic change | polygenetic fashion]].
 ==References==
 Giusfredi, F. and Merlin, S. 2018. A contact-based study of the languages and cultures of Pre-Classical Anatolia: the project PALaC, News from the lands of the Hittites 2018, 95-104. Matras, Y. 2009. Language Contact, Cambridge.