LEXICAL LOANWORDS IN PROSE IN DIALECT WRITTEN BY DRAGOSLAV MIHAILOVIĆ Cover Image

ЛЕКСИЧКЕ ПОЗАЈМЉЕНИЦЕ У ПРОЗИ НА ДИЈАЛЕКТУ ДРАГОСЛАВА МИХАИЛОВИЋА
LEXICAL LOANWORDS IN PROSE IN DIALECT WRITTEN BY DRAGOSLAV MIHAILOVIĆ

Author(s): Tanja J. Tanasković
Subject(s): Language studies, Lexis, Sociolinguistics, Serbian Literature, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: lexical loanwords; dialect; literary text; lexicon of Serbian language;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is the analise of lexical level of non-Slavic loanwords in novels and short stories by Dragoslav Mihailović, wich are territorially marked. The literary work of Dragoslav Mihailovic consider prose written in a dialect, and such prose allowes us to fill prospective lexical gaps in a dialectal map, to determine tipes of language influences in one part of Kosovo-Resava’s dialect, and it gives us information about which loanword have survived in folk speeches. Compering situations in general and dialect dictionaries, we reach information about level of lexemes prevalence in a wider area of Kosovo-Resava’s speeches, and we concluded that semantic upgrade performed by writer, who contextualized words in prose, is not frequent and extensive. Expansion of polysemantic structures and formative nests of territorialy marked loanwords in prose eith wide reception stabilizes the position of these lexemes in overall lexicon of Serbian language.

  • Issue Year: 3/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 449-462
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Serbian