Original scientific paper
Southwest Istrian or Štokavian-Čakavian Dialect in the Light of Mate Hraste’s Research
Lina Pliško
; Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Department of Humanities, Pula, Croatia
Abstract
In 1964, encouraged by Pavle Ivić’s paper “On the Classification of Serbo-Croatian Dialects” presented at the congress of Yugoslav Slavists in Ohrid (1963), Mate Hraste undertook a study of the southwest Istrian dialect in order “to determine how accurately the Štokavian area in Istria had been delineated and how much Štokavian is spoken in Istria at all” (Hraste 1964: 6). In the course of his research he visited 22 dialectological points to check “the 14 differences between Štokavian and Čakavian” dialects, as identified by Ivić, and added a range of linguistic features supporting the idea of the southwest Istrian dialect as part of the Čakavian group. He published the results of his research in a paper entitled “The Subdialects of Southwest Istria.” Even today this paper is the starting point for research into the still insufficiently known Čakavian subdialects in the southwest of Istria. The current paper, based on Hraste’s pioneering work, presents more recent research into the southwest Istrian Štokavian dialect.
Keywords
Mate Hraste; The Subdialects of Southwest Istria; southwest Istrian or Štokavian-Čakavian dialect; Čakavian dialect group; Istria
Hrčak ID:
144133
URI
Publication date:
31.1.2010.
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