Western Štokavian Dialectal Forms in Mediaeval Bosnian: The Documentary Evidence
Western Štokavian Dialectal Forms in Mediaeval Bosnian: The Documentary Evidence

Summary/Abstract: The term Western Štokavian is associated with the period before the major migrations that transformed the boundaries between dialectal areas in the late Middle Ages, influencing the emergence of a new dialectal order within the overarching framework of Štokavian. Properly speaking, it stands in contrast to Eastern Štokavian, with which it gradually merged in a process of convergence, resulting in the appearance of the neo-Štokavian dialectal forms. Once this process had taken place, “western” and “eastern Štokavian” came to represent distant echoes of a faded Mediaeval situation that could only be reconstructed through written documents.

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