Significance of the sevdalinka for the phraseology of Bosnian language Cover Image

Značaj sevdalinke za frazeologiju bosanskog jezika
Significance of the sevdalinka for the phraseology of Bosnian language

Author(s): Zenaida Meco
Subject(s): Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Folklore; Cultural history; Bosnian language; Sevdalinka;

Summary/Abstract: The relationship between the phraseme and the sevdalinka takes place in three directions: as a part of oral literature, sevdalinka was involved in the production of the phrasemes; as a text which is relatively unaffected in the form of transfers from one generation to next, the sevdalinka keeps phrasemes which are no longer used, making them idyomatic, and testifies about the age of phrasemes which are still in use; as a poetic text, the sevdalinka „broke“ phrasemes. This concerns the syntax structure of the phraseme, and that opens the question of whether it is possible to declare the phrasal construction as the phraseme, which would then redefine the phraseme as a combination of two or more headwords and expand on the construction of head and depend words.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 37
  • Page Range: 245-255
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bosnian