СРПСКИ ГОВОРИ ШИПОВА
SERBIAN SPEECHES OF ŠIPOVO

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a phonetic and morphological description of Šipovo speech and some of its most important syntaxic features. About two hundred and sixty collected lexemes are attached in the form of a lexicon. The results indicate that these speeches belong to the eastern group of the northwestern branch of the Herzegovina-Krajina dialect. Pronunciation of vowels e and o after the accented syllable and the reductions of the vowel i in medial and final position are distinctive features of these speeches. One part of the territory registers the o>u replacement next to nasal consonants. The former vowel “yat” can have one-syllable and two-syllable refl exes. The distribution of sonants with a vowel function is much more widespread than in the standard language. Pronunciation of consonants does not deviate from the situation in the standard language or in other Stokavian speeches. The excerpted material shows that the consonant h is usually reduced. Sometimes it is replaced by other consonants. Labiodental f has a more stable position in the system. The Yekavian yat assimilation in sequences dѣ and tѣ is limited to some lexemes. It is quite common to use the sequence -jd- in forms of the present and some other verbal forms. The falling accents in noninitial syllables are frequent in the speech, especially in foreign words and some complex words. All of the respondents conserve vowel lengths, with position after an accented syllable. Stress transfer to the proclitic is a very frequent feature in these speeches. Registered accentual doublets are quite common in many western speeches. Older forms of adjectives, possessive and demonstrative pronouns are frequent, but the same forms of nouns are very rare. Names such as Veljko, Slavko, are declined as male nouns, and two-syllable names such as Božo, Vlado as female nouns. Some of the verbal forms are no longer used, such as the imperfect and the perfect participle. These speeches manifested unusual features for contemporary language, such as using genitive with transitive negative verbs and the u + gen construction.

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