Professional paper
Concept for a dictionary of the Međimurje dialect
Đuro Blažeka
; Učiteljski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
The author lists problems connected to the construction of a large
dictionary of the Međimurje dialect and the structure of dictionary entries
in it. Seeing as how Međimurje is a large area with numerous phonological
and morphological systems, conceiving a dictionary that would equally take
into account the entire area of Međimurje and simultaneously meet all high
scientific criteria as well as being accessibile to as many readers as possible
is an extremely complicated task. In the introduction, the author describes
the methods used for collecting material for the dictionary, as well as the
criteria used to select the points in which the material will be verified. He
then lists the most important phonological and morphological differences
within the Međimurje dialect. He has divided these differences into those
which differentiate local speeches and dual forms located within the speeches
themselves. He accents the fact that morphological differences must be
shown in the introductory grammatical part, except for those forms in which
a change of the location of accent or vowel quality have occurred. Near the
end of the work he also discusses the other parts of the dictionary entry:
archilexemes, headwords, references, definitions and sentence confirmations.
He especially draws attention to the importance of high-quality sentence
confirmations, which have the ability to make the dictionary very important
for the study of the culture and civilization of that area.
Keywords
Međimurje dialect; dialectal points; concept for a dictionary entry; morphological and fonological differences; cross-references
Hrčak ID:
148059
URI
Publication date:
14.7.2008.
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