ОДНОС УПОТРЕБЕ ДИЈАЛЕКАТСКИХ И СТАНДАРДНОЈЕЗИЧКИХ ФОРМИ У ГОВОРУ МЛАДИХ У СИРИНИЋУ

Abstract

This paper focuses on the presence of standard Serbian language forms in the speech of the youth in the Sirinić region. The Serbian dialect spoken in Sirinić belongs to the Prizren-South Morava type. Apart from the fact that young speakers have been exposed to standard Serbian since the beginning of their schooling, their language is also influenced by the standard Serbian present in the media. The paper analyzes the accentual system, past tense and future tense I, after identifying forms originating in standard Serbian and their dialectal equivalents. Utterances containing standard language features were subject to a qualitative analysis. Changes in accent occur in connection to the presence of other standard language features in the same utterance. Regarding the past tense, standard forms are noticed in the part of the present active plural participle, while for the third person plural the dialectal principle still applies, meaning the auxiliary verb is omitted. Standard forms of the future tense I were encountered only in two utterances that are intonationally marked, and indicate an additional meaning of the statement. The analysis of the accentual system and of the form of future tense I indicates that the persistence of the dialect in the examined material is high, and that the use of the standard Serbian language is usually intonationally and thematically marked, which means that we can talk about diglossia. In contrast, the decomposition of the third person plural of the past tense, in which the dialectal principle of not using an auxiliary verb survives, while the standard suffix is used for the present active participle, indicates a change in the speech of younger interlocutors, therefore researching their language is also important for revealing developmental tendencies of the dialect.