Turkish, Bulgarian and Macedonian ― Morphosyntactic similarities in the nominal systems

The peculiarities of Balkan languages nominal infl ections are closely connected with the use of defi nite articles, as there are postpositive articles in Bulgarian.Macedonian, Albanian and Rumanian, prepositive articles in Modern Greek and copulative articles in Albanian, Rumanian and Modern Greek connecting nouns with adjectives.The tendency towards analytism of the nominal system is not specifi c only for Balkan languages, but it can also be found in many other European languages.So this is not only a question of Balkan linguistics but also of Eurolinguistics.Characteristic of the Balkan languages, however, are a number of phenomena that accompany these analytic tendencies, especially the use of articles, postpositive, prepositive and copulative, as well as the doubling of clitics connected with direct and indirect objects, and above all the abundance of the verbal systems in all these languages.No articles are used in the Northern Southeastern European languages (Serbian, Croatian, and Slovene), and in other West and East Slavic languages, e.g.Polish, Czech, Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian.Prepositive articles like in Modern Greek are found in most of the European languages, but postpositive articles can be found in Scandinavian languages and in some northern Russian dialects.We have to raise a question, if the Balkan areais special regarding the use of articles (except Serbian, Croatian, and Slovene).The term "area" is used in dialectology for any geographical region isolated on the basis of its linguistic characteristics.An "areal classifi cation" would establish "areal types" or groups, such as Scandinavian or