Digital Publication without Code : The Evolution of the Sofia - Berkeley Archive of Bulgarian Dialectal Speech

In recent years, various approaches, hierarchies and models have been developed whichclaim to adequately describe and explain the lexical and structural effects of language contact.Thomason’s Borrowing Scale (e.g. 2001) has been frequently – and critically – cited. However,works which should also be noted in this field include, among others, Johanson’s Code-CopyingModel (e.g. 2002) and Van Coetsem’s Two Tranfer Types (e.g. 2000), which have received littleattention in Slavic studies up until now.The aim of this article is to critically discuss the above-named models with the help ofvarious Slavic contact combinations, as well as to present possible amendments and syntheses. Indoing so the aspiration is to aplly a panchronic approach which should also incorporate historicalcontact configurations. The contact combinations examined include non-Slavic – Slavic contact,for example German – Czech; inter-Slavic contact, for example Czech – Polish or Church-Slavonic – Russian; as well as the Slavic Balkan languages that evolved as a result ofconvergence processes within a Sprachbund.Linguistic data is provided by a corpus as well as relevant studies.