Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/mnlqgcrdxy
Pomjan’s Romance language elements in the past and today
Suzana Todorović
; Pedagoška fakulteta Univerze na Primorskem
Abstract
In this paper, we present a diachronic account of the use of selected Romance language elements drawn from the collection made by the dialectologist Tine Logar in the village of Pomjan in the Slovenian part of Istria in 1957. We compared the Romance language elements recorded sixty-five years ago with those still used by the speakers of the dialect, basing the comparison on the results of our own dialectological research.
Although our research has shown that the data collected in the middle of the last century does not reflect the current state of the Slovene Istrian dialect, the collected words are undoubtedly a valuable and credible starting point for diachronic research interested in current dialect use. A diachronic study of the use of Romace language elements in the local dialect of Pomjan has shown that only a handful of such elements documented in 1957 are still in use. Our analysis of the vocabulary has shown that most Romance elements have been replaced by new dialect expressions. The greatest number of the analyzed terms has been preserved by older speakers of the dialect, whereas younger speakers replaced them with neologisms phonetically adapted to the dialect. An etymological analysis of the Pomjan Romance language elements recorded by Logar has shown that all the words had been borrowed from the Istrian-Venetian dialect, with the exception of the term plḁńer ‘basket’, which belongs to the pre-Venetian linguistic stratum. The study also highlights terms taken from the Istrian-Venetian urban environment, which have a different meaning in the original language.
Keywords
Pomjan; diachronic research; Romance loanwords; Istrian-Venetian loanwords; Istrian-Venetian dialect
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286887
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Publication date:
9.12.2022.
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