Resumen de Variation in Balkan Judeo-Spanish final clauses

Rey Romero

• Judeo-Spanish is the language of Sephardic Jewry, taken to Ottoman territories in the Balkans after their expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula in the late fifteenth century. This study analyzes variation in subordinate final clauses in two varieties of Balkan Judeo-Spanish: Monastir and Salonika.

  Both varieties present a similar variation omitting the preposition para to introduce a subordinate final clause. However, variation appears to be higher in the Monastir dialect. I argue that linguistic factors (subjunctive usage, the subordinating conjunction ke) and social-historical causes (language shift, language endangerment) can account for the distribution of the competing variants in Balkan Judeo-Spanish.