Frontmatter -- Editor's Preface -- Contents -- Contemporary Language Contacts in the Balkans: Situations and Outcomes -- Separation and Symbiosis between Slavs and Albanians as Continuum of Linguistic Contact Situations: New Challenges for New Data -- Mutual Understanding among Albanians, Slavs and Aromanians in Prespa, North Macedonia: Perfect Tense as a Perfect Tool -- "Balanced Language Contact" in Social Context: Velja Gorana in Southern Montenegro -- Symbiosis Suspectus: Palasa in Himara, Albania -- Minority within a Minority: Iabalcea and Carașova in Romania -- Evidence for Past Coexistence: Romance Stratum in Croatian Glagolitic Sources from Krk, Croatia -- Reconstructing Past Coexistence: Problems and Mysteries in the Multilingual History of Tsakonia, Greece -- Convergence and Failure to Converge in Relative Social Isolation: Balkan Judezmo -- Balkan Sprachbund Theory as a Research Paradigm -- Abbreviations -- Index of names -- Authors' profiles Authors' profiles -- Authors' profiles Authors' profiles