Original scientific paper
The Međimurje dialect
Đuro Blažeka
; Učiteljski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
The paper gives a short account of the author's research of the speeches of
Međimurje and the speeches of Croats from the Hungarian Pomurje region.
That region has not been properly linguistically analyzed up to now. The most
important characteristic features of that dialect are the loss of the qunatity
and modulation opposition and their prephonologization into the quality
of the vowels. The author has divided the dialect of Međimurje into three
subdialects. The division was based on the combination of two important
diacronic phonological criteria: a) the relationship between the reflex of jat
and the semi-vowel ə in the stressed position b) the reflex syllabic (vocalic)
and the back nasal ǫ in the stressed position. He divided the subdialect into
groups according to 30 selected phonological and morphological criteria. The
paper also describes the most important phonological and morphological
features and gives their territorial distribution. In its final section the paper
gives a survey of the relevant features of some particular speeches spoken in
the neighbourhood of the dialect of Međimurje.
Keywords
dialect of the region of Međimurje; criteria for the subdivision into subdialects and groups; phonology; morphology; the neighbourhood of the dialect of the region of Međimurje
Hrčak ID:
148078
URI
Publication date:
14.7.2008.
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