Dialectology of the Montenegrin Language

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Montenegrin dialects have long been treated as part of the Serbian or Serbo-Croatian language in traditionalist dialectology. Even though they are among the best studied dialects of Slavic languages, this is the first monograph offering a synthesis of Montenegrin dialects. In Dialectology of the Montenegrin Language, Adnan Cirgic addresses them as a compact unit, mostly corresponding to Montenegrin state borders, with isoglosses that cross those borders—much like the behavior of dialects in general. Cirgic brings a different approach to classifying Montenegrin dialects, free from the ideological shackles imposed by unitarian language policy in the former Yugoslav federation, which included Montenegro as one of its constituent members. In addition to classifying Montenegrin dialects and summarizing features of individual dialects and speech groups, this book also presents a comprehensive history of research on those dialects since the nineteenth century, along with an exhaustive dialectological bibliography of Montenegro.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-12-10
Mått162 x 241 x 17 mm
Vikt376 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Slavic, Baltic, and Eastern European Languages and Cultures
Antal sidor134
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
MedarbetareGreenberg,MarcL.
ISBN9781793636362
ÖversättareDrincic, Goran

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ContentsEditor's PrefaceAuthor's PrefaceList of AbbreviationsHistory of Studying of Montenegrin DialectsOn Previous Classifications of Montenegrin DialectsIssue of Classification of Montenegrin DialectsAccentual System of Montenegrin DialectsJat Alternants in Montenegrin DialectsThe Issue of Semivowel in Montenegrin DialectsThe Issue of Vowel Group AO in Montenegrin DialectsMain Features of Individual Speech Groups in MontenegroNorthwestern Montenegrin DialectsSoutheastern Montenegrin DialectsSummary BibliographySubject IndexIndex of NamesIndex of Word Forms

“Cirgic’s book brings the first comprehensive view of the dialect situation in Montenegro, with implications for contiguous dialects, to a broad international audience, now mediated through English. The rich Montenegrin dialect refugium is a boon to language variationists and Slavic accentologists. The author contextualizes the study of Montenegrin dialects, which helps researchers to navigate the complex literature and previous descriptive treatments of the region that have been produced over the course of more than a century. As such, this book is a significant milestone in the post-Yugoslav study of South Slavic dialectology.”