Original scientific paper
The Accentuation of Nouns in the Premantura Dialects
David Mandić
; Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Department of Humanities, Pula, Croatia
Abstract
This paper offers a description of the nominal accentuation in the Premantura dialects with respect to the three accentual paradigms (A, B and C), inherited from Common Slavic. For the sake of clarity, the main accentual traits of these dialects have been listed and the prosodic changes carried through in their historical development have been described. In the central section, the material found in earlier works is analysed as well as supplemented with and compared to modern data obtained by fieldwork. The result is a more detailed description of the accent system of nouns in this subgroup of SW Istrian dialects, which will help determine their precise relation to the rest of the SW Istrian dialect group, as well as to other closely related
Croatian dialects.
Keywords
Southwest Istrian dialects; Premantura dialects; accent(uation); accentual paradigm; circumflex; acute
Hrčak ID:
144219
URI
Publication date:
19.8.2013.
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