SERBIAN MARGINAL VERNACULARS – LANGUAGE INTERFERENCE AND BALKANIC PROCESSES Cover Image

СРПСКИ ПЕРИФЕРНИ ГОВОРИ – МЕЂУЈЕЗИЧКИ УТИЦАЈИ И БАЛКАНИСТИЧКИ ПРОЦЕСИ
SERBIAN MARGINAL VERNACULARS – LANGUAGE INTERFERENCE AND BALKANIC PROCESSES

Author(s): Sofija Miloradović
Subject(s): South Slavic Languages, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Philology
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: Serbian marginal vernaculars; language interference; non-Slavic languages; Balkan linguistic league; ethno-linguistic and ethno-cultural contact;

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a segment of Bakan ethno-cultural language mosaic – nine features of the Serbian vernaculars in the language periphery, the two areas of intensive ethno-linguistic and ethno-cultural contact between the Slavic and the non-Slavic, lasting for several centuries. Taking into consideration that the observed vernaculars belong to the „main dialectal type” by their essential characteristics, the variations are a result of their geographical and linguistic inferiority, as well as them being under the influence of the foreign languages. The non-Slavic languages, Romanian and Russian, have a profound effect on the Serbian vernaculars. In turn, the developmental processes of these vernaculars differ from those of the centralized speech. This phenomenon is especially noticeable in the vernaculars of the Serbian enclaves.

  • Issue Year: 1/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 267-279
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Serbian