Filologija, No. 64, 2015.
Original scientific paper
The language of ‘Dragi kamen’ by M. Balota: A linguistic analysis
David Mandić
; Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli
Abstract
The poems by Mijo Mirković (Mate Balota) gathered in the collection ‘Dragi kamen’ have already been linguistically analysed in works by Iva Lukežić and Petar Šimunović. The aim of this paper is a somewhat deeper linguistic analysis of these poems, which includes a more detailed description of the features of the dialectal basis of their language (i. e. the dialect of the author’s birthplace, the village of Rakalj) and the definition of elements originating in other dialects or in the standard language. The analysis, carried out at the phonological and morphological levels, has comprised all the poems in the collection. This paper also addresses briefly certain accentual problems. The poems were not accentuated originally, but although they sound most natural if read according to the accentual rules of the Rakalj dialect, this sometimes violates their poetic structure.
Keywords
Mijo Mirković (Mate Balota); Rakalj; Rakalj dialect; Southwest Istrian dialects; Čakavian; linguistic analysis
Hrčak ID:
153440
URI
Publication date:
29.2.2016.
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