Morphological changes in the urban vernacular of the city of Split

• Autores: Dunja Jutronic
• Localización: International journal of the sociology of language, ISSN 0165-2516, Nº. 147, 2001, págs. 65-78
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The author presents four dialectal morphological variables that are undergoing di€erent rates of change in the Cakavian dialect under the in¯uence of standard Croatian (Cr.). The conclusion is that investigation into morphological variation reveals and brings up interesting questions about degrees of stigmatization, saliency, the rate and process of accommodation, and the spread of linguistic change through grammatical categories. In addition, it points to the usefulness of quantitative analysis on the morphological level and thus contributes to the general theory of linguistic change.