Original scientific paper

Innovations and levelling in some plural forms of nouns in the local vernacular of Crikvenica

Martina Bašić orcid.org/0000-0002-7761-8453 ; The Linguistic Research Institute Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

In this paper, the main innovations and levelling in some plural forms of nouns in the local vernacular of Crikvenica have been described. The old dialect endings in the plural dative form -ōn, -ēn and the plural instrumental form of masculine and neuter nouns -i are slowly disappearing. The old endings are replaced with old dialect ending for plural instrumental form of feminine nouns -ami.

Keywords

čakavian dialect group; local vernacular of Crikvenica; plural forms of nouns; variational sociolinguistics

Hrčak ID:

143768

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/143768

Publication date:

24.6.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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