TY - JOUR TI - CENTRAL EUROPE AS A LANDSCAPE OF CONVERGENCE AU - Pusztay, János TI - CENTRAL EUROPE AS A LANDSCAPE OF CONVERGENCE AB - The author believes that Central Europe is a region stretching from the Alps − Adriatic Sea as far as the Baltic Sea. (= the Amber road region.) From a linguistic viewpoint Central Europe is a language union, predominantly affected by the German language. The characteristics of this union are: linguistic purism, the belt of composite languages, the belt of languages with affix sequences, with preverbs, a unification in the rectio system. VL - 2015 IS - Volume 132, Issue 3 PY - 2016 SN - 1897-1059 C1 - 2083-4624 SP - 85 EP - 106 DO - 10.4467/20834624SL.15.012.3933 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/central-europe-as-a-landscape-of-convergence KW - Central Europe KW - areal linguistics KW - language union