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- Title
Phonological Results of an Ancient Border Shift: Vocalic Mergers in Northeastern Slovenia.
- Authors
Lundberg, Grant H.
- Abstract
The Slovene dialect area of Haloze, located to the southeast of Ptuj along the present Slovene-Croatian national border, is essentially part of the Pannonian Slovene dialect base, yet fieldwork documents an unexpected phonological development in Haloze that connects it to an ancient Kajkavian Croatian vocalic merger. At least two explanations for this development in the village dialects of Haloze seem possible. These vocalic mergers could be the result of relatively recent dialect contact in the area, or they could have resulted from an ancient border shift. This paper argues that both the linguistic and historical data indicate that the merger of the Common Slavic jat and jers in Haloze is an ancient development and took place during the tenth to the thirteenth century control of this area by Hungary and Croatia.
- Subjects
HALOZE (Slovenia); SLOVENIA; CROATIAN language; HISTORICAL linguistics; ORIGIN of languages
- Publication
Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 2005, Vol 13, Issue 1, p119
- ISSN
1068-2090
- Publication type
Article