Original scientific paper
The Speech of the Inhabitants of Janjevo Settling in Zagreb in the 1990s
Stipe Kekez
; The Institute of Croatian language and linguistics, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This paper provides a general outline of the changes in the Janjevo subdialect, a project that clearly has its drawbacks, especially as a more thorough, and therefore probably more reliable, picture could be formed if only one level of linguistic analysis had been included (accentuation, phonology, inflection, syntax). I have identified features common to both informants but also those peculiar to only one of them. In the latter case, the picture is incomplete since, as Peter Trudgill points out, the speech of an individual informant cannot be generalized, especially not in sociolinguistics. The characteristics of the Janjevo subdialect seem most conservative in the areas of accentuation, pronunciation, and intonation. Similarly well preserved are syntactic features, esp. the construction present tense + da + present tense. The influence of Standard Croatian is most visible in the active past participle, final consonant voicing, presence of the spirant x, and (i)jekavian reflex of jat, as well as in the existence of future simple and the infinitive. Contact with colloquial language is most readily perceivable in the contracted forms of the active past participle.
Keywords
dialectology; sociolinguistics; inhabitants of Janjevo; Kosovo; Zagreb; migrations
Hrčak ID:
144199
URI
Publication date:
31.1.2010.
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