Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/https://dx.doi.org/10.21857/y54jof4jwm
The dialect of Preko (compared with the other dialects of the island of Ugljan)
Mislav Benić
; Institut za hrvatski jezik
Abstract
This article describes the basic characteristics of the dialect of Preko. The
introductory section defines the position of the Preko dialect in the Croatian
dialect system. The second section addresses important phonological features
of the Preko dialect in comparison to those of the other Ugljan dialects. The
third section offers a brief outline of the Preko morphology and a comparison of
certain forms to their equivalents in the neighbouring dialects. The fourth section
presents a number of interesting syntactic phenomena, which are generally found
in all Ugljan dialects, as well as some other dialects. The fifth section contains a
few comments on the lexicon.
The dialect of Preko is essentially similar to the other Ugljan dialects, although
it is easily distinguished from the rest due to its phonology. The most peculiar of
all Ugljan dialects is that of Kukljica, followed by the Kali dialect. Both of these
dialects differ from the others by vowel lengthening before opstruents and by the
lengthening of a in auslaut. The other Ugljan dialects that stand out due to their
phonological peculiarities are the dialect of Preko (with the phonologically almost
identical dialect of the neighbouring islet of Ošljak) and that of Polje, which
differs from the Preko dialect solely by the lj > j change, whereas the other Ugljan
dialects are somewhat different both from the Preko dialect and from one another.
In the morphology of the Preko dialect and other Ugljan dialects, particularly
interesting is the verb, on the one hand because of the abundancy of accentual
type C verbs with vowel-shortening, and on the other, because of their rich verbal
mood system. The syntax of Čakavian dialects is relatively poorly studied and
the short overview presented in this article demonstrates that it possesses many
interesting features. An interesting lexical characteristic of Preko and the other
Ugljan dialects is their well-preserved system of narrowly-specialised kinship
terms.
Keywords
Čakavian; Ugljan dialects; Preko dialect; phonology; prosody; morphology; syntax
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Publication date:
23.12.2024.
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