Filologija, No. 4, 1963.
Original scientific paper
On the reconstruction of the premigration mosaic of the Serbo-Croat dialects
Dalibor Brozović
Abstract
Firstly, the article discourses in general upon the isoglossal and dialectologic maps of our present day conceptions as to developing processes of our dialects and the role established by the fact that the most useful thing for our dialectology would be to reconstruct two phases -the condition following the consolidation after settlement on the Balkans and the condition immediately before the beginning of migrations -the general and specific advantages springing up from the endeavours to reconstruct the past conditions, especially premigrational, and to represent the results of this research visually, are considered. The differences between the organic aspects of dialectal differentiation and its anorganic, concretely migrational aspects, are treated separately.
Having demonstrated by several examples the facts that the historical dialectology can offer by the reconstruction of the premigration network of isoglosses and premigration dialectal types (the comprehension of which promises a considerable change of our present day conceptions as to developing processes of our dialects and the role of migrations), in the article the four sources, already pointed out by Ivić, are expounded in short and a new possible one is added. Then the combinatoric method by which to a certain degree of probability the main characteristics can be reconstructed, even of those premigration types for which all the sources fail, is explained.
In the latter part of the article a series of hypothetic dialectal types -kajkavian, štokavian, čakavian, torlakian -is exposed. For illustrating the natural, organic concatenation of the premigration dialectal types, a linked series of the hypothetic štokavian types in the north-west of the štokavian group of dialects, as well as the neighbouring ones beyond the old štokavian boundary, is interpreted.
In the end exemplifying the treatments used for the reconstruction of a hypothetic dialectal type, the ancient neoštokavian štakavski type on the left bank of the river Neretva is more concretely located horn the bend almost to the estuary, and the relations with its neighbours as well as the function of an organic link running vertically (East Bosnia -Dubrovnik), horizontally (East and West Herzegovina) and diagonally, are defined. During the reconstruction process that type takes the concrete features of the main characteristics of its dialectal physiognomy considering the basic qualificatory criteria of the štokavian dialectology, and some less important features are envisaged.
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Hrčak ID:
165310
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Publication date:
23.8.1963.
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