The accent shift to proclitics in the speech of the village of Batkuša near Šamac Cover Image

Преношење акцента на проклитику у говору села Баткуша код Шамца
The accent shift to proclitics in the speech of the village of Batkuša near Šamac

Author(s): Renata Vidačić
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Descriptive linguistics, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Новом Саду
Keywords: dialectology; the accent shift to proclitic; Herzegovina-Krajina dialect; Posavina speech type

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we observe the accent shift to proclitic in the village of Batkuša, whose speech belongs to the northeastern region of the Herzegovina-Krajina dialect. This research included accent shift to proclitic of all types of words which participate in this process, and it has been observed by the types of words and the types of shift. The aim of this paper is to show how much the accent shift to proclitic in speech of the village of Batkuša is living phenomenon, in which categories it appears and to what extent, whether there is a tendency to abandon this occurrence, which linguistic and extra-linguistic factors affects its consistency, and how does it relate to situations in neighboring speeches and distant Serbian speeches. The analysis shows that the situation in Batkuša’s speech, when it comes to the intensity of the accent shift to proclitic and the categories in which it occurs, is very close to the condition familiar to most of the speeches of the Herzegovina-Krajina dialect.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 50
  • Page Range: 211-243
  • Page Count: 32
  • Language: Serbian