Olivier Winistörfer is a PhD candidate at the University of Zurich. He has studied Comparative Romance Linguistics and Evolutionary Linguistics at the University of Zurich. The Balkans and the Balkan sprachbund - two very loved and very despised concepts in linguistics
The lecture was devoted to the concepts of the Balkans, Balkan sprachbund and the questions on what makes a Balkan language a Balkan language and whether there is a certain bias in the research of these languages and their phenomena.
