Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/mzvkptxjd9
The isogloss of the progressive shift of the Slavic old circumflex isogloss in the Croatian language region
Anita Celinić
orcid.org/0000-0003-3954-0920
; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje
Mira Menac-Mihalić
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu Odsjek za kroatistiku
Abstract
About forty Croatian local dialects have the progressive shift of the Slavic old
circumflexes from that we can conclude that it is an essential characteristic of the
nonimmigrant Western Croatian local dialects. New researches – for HJA, and
for other purposes – and new collected (researched) material, point to the necessity
of transforming and upgrading some older thesis.
The progressive shift of the Slavic old circumflex is considered to be a phenomenon
that split the Southwest Slavic area in two. In literature we can often find
that the »Slovenian language« is separated by this from the rest of the Southwest
Slavic area. This phenomenon characterizes Western Croatian local dialects, as
we have shown, so we believe that it is necessary to show that fact, or, even
better, not to use the names of national languages in naming the protounits of that
kind. In that way, whether the local dialects with a progressive shift circumflex
really belong Croatian language, as well as do Slovenian local dialects without
that shift belong to Slovene language, would be out of the question.
Keywords
circumflex; Croatian language; dialectology; isogloss
Hrčak ID:
186147
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Publication date:
1.9.2017.
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