Original scientific paper

Prepositions in the Ekavian Čakavian Dialect

Irena Miloš ; The Institute of Croatian language and linguistics, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The paper first and foremost presents the importance of the analysis of prepositions as a type of word in the Čakavian Ekavian dialect. The meaning of prepositions has been established in syntactic environment, which is unknown without researching the dialect corpus. In the fieldwork, the dialect corpus for the theme analysis has been collected, including two local speeches in four subdialects of the Ekavian dialect of the Čakavian idiom, as follows: a) for the littoral subdialect, the speeches of Praputnjak and Krasica; b) for the northeastern Istrian subdialect, the speeches of Ika and Kastav; c) for the central Istrian subdialect, the speeches of Lupogalav and Boljunsko Polje and d) for the insular subdialect, the local speeches of Predošćica and Cres. In the description of the meaning of prepositions, we have established the basic variant of the most frequent prepositions in speeches in the Ekavian dialect of the Čakavian idiom – od, va and na; the distribution of prepositions with the case in a sentence and the description model for the meaning of prepositions in their syntactic environment.

Keywords

prepositions; Čakavian Ekavian Dialect; syntax; meaning

Hrčak ID:

144225

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/144225

Publication date:

19.8.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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