Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/94kl4cl7em
On the local dialect of Kastav in the 15th century (Contribution to the study of the development of local dialect of Kastav)
Sanja Zubčić
orcid.org/0000-0002-8248-2853
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci
Ivan Miškulin
Abstract
The Law of the City of Kastav (Kastav Statute) is a legal text written in the vernacular and containing, just like other Croatian legal texts from the medieval and early modern periods, no (significant) elements of Croatian Church Slavonic (Damjanović 2008, Kuzmić 2009, 2011). Although they are written texts, whose features differ from spoken discourse and thus warrant a degree of methodological caution, legal texts are still an important source of information in historical dialectology (Ivić 1955/1956, Frellesvig 1996, Lukežić 2005). In this paper, which is based on the data from published scholarship and from our own field work, features of the medieval Croatian chronolect of Kastav will be extracted from Margetić’s transcription of the Zakon grada Kastva od Leta 1400 (The Law of the City of Kastav in the Year 1400) and compared with the modern chronolect. The analysis of selected linguistic variables will serve to determine the similarities and differences between the two chronolects, as well as their stability, and will shed light on the direction of the linguistic development of the local dialect of Kastav, contributing to the establishment of a time frame of linguistic changes.
Keywords
The Law of the City of Kastav (Kastav Statute); local dialect of Kastav today; historical dialectology; chronolect
Hrčak ID:
286890
URI
Publication date:
9.12.2022.
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