Serbo-Croatian Research Articles

Problems of Serbo-Croatian Lexicography

AbstractLes lexicographes yougoslaves ont fourni des travaux importants decrivant la langue serbo-croate. Neanmoins, il faut constater l’existence de graves problemes quant a la description lexicographique du serbo-croate contemporain. On peut attribuer ces problemes aux facteurs suivants: la nouveaute de la langue standard — ce standard n’existe qui depuis quatre-vingts ans; le chauvinisme — les conflits entre Serbes et Croates on freine la composition de dictionnaires (il y a en Croatie des groupes qui affirment que la langue croate est independante du serbe); et le conservatisme lexicographique et linguistique — les dictionnaires existant decrivent principalement la langue de la litterature du dix-neuvieme siecle (ces dictionnaires negligent le vocabulaire de la langue quotidienne d’aujourd’hui).La solution des problemes lexicographiques exigerait la realisation de plusieurs projets dans un proche avenir. D’abord, il faut composer un dictionnaire normatif, pareil au dictionnaire de Ozegov (de la langue...

Loanwords in the two variants of Serbo‐Croatian

(1973). Loanwords in the two variants of Serbo‐Croatian. Scando-Slavica: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 197-205.

A New Serbo-Croatian Grammar

A New Serbo-Croatian Grammar

The acoustic differentiation of Serbo-Croatian accents in statements.

The acoustic differentiation of Serbo-Croatian accents in statements.

Serbo-Croatian or Serbian and Croatian?

Serbo-Croatian or Serbian and Croatian?

The Distribution of Serbo-Croatian Consonants

The Distribution of Serbo-Croatian Consonants

The Phonemics and Morphophonemics of Serbo-Croatian Stress

The Phonemics and Morphophonemics of Serbo-Croatian Stress

Some Acoustic Correlates of Accent in Serbo-Croatian

Some Acoustic Correlates of Accent in Serbo-Croatian

Modem Serbo-Croatian Poetry

Modem Serbo-Croatian Poetry

The Serbo-Croatian Comparative

The Serbo-Croatian Comparative

The Witnessed Past in Serbo-Croatian

(1957). The Witnessed Past in Serbo-Croatian. Canadian Slavonic Papers: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 98-105.

Serbo-Croatian Phonemes

Serbo-Croatian Phonemes

The Aspects of the Verb in Serbo-Croatian

The Aspects of the Verb in Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian Accents and Quantities

1. The purpose of this paper is to describe the accent and quantity systems of the Serbo-Croatian literary language as they function on the synchronic phonological plane, without considerations of morphology or of linguistic history, these being other and separate problems. The description is based on data presented in the standard works, and on my own observations during a month in Yugoslavia in the summer of 1938.1 2. The following stress phenomena are observable in Serbo-Croatian. Words may begin with a loud stress on the first syllable, the succeeding syllables having much weaker stress (i.e., in ordinary terminology, being 'unstressed'). Such words may be of two or of three syllables; monosyllables which are not subordinated within the sentence to other words also have a loud stress. This stress, the falling, decreases in loudness rapidly while the vowel of the syllable is being pronounced, and there is no loudness left when the end of the syllable is reached. Examples are: b6j 'battle', kuika 'house', kipiti 'to gather'. Another set of words, all of more than one syllable, may have a different kind of loud stress on the first syllable if disyllabic, on the first or second if trisyllabic, and on the first, second, or third if tetrasyllabic, but never on the last syllable nor on a syllable further from the end than the fourth. This stress, the rising, begins fairly loud and usually increases in loudness slightly through the syllable, so that at the end the loudness is as great as or greater than at the beginning; the loudness does not fall off until well into the syllable succeeding the loud-stressed one; subsequent syllables are quite weak, as are those preceding the stressed syllable. Examples are: zldto 'gold', ddbiti 'to obtain', Mienica

Surviving Turkish Elements in Serbo-Croatian

THE DEBT of the Serbo-Croatian language to Turkish is a great one; nor is this fact to be wondered at, if it be remembered that from 1459 to 1804, the year of the revolution of Karageorge, Serbia proper was a mere Turkish pashalik, where every attempt at reas.serting Slavic nationality was sternly repressed, and furthermore, that the territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina was under Turkish rule from 1463 (Herzegovina, 1483) to 1878, when the provinces came under the Austro-Hiungarian crown, and subsequently, of course, passed to the present Slavic Kingdom of Jugoslavia. Naturally, therefore, the vocabulary left by Turkish in Bosnian-Croatian is even richer than that which has survived in thepurely Serbian idiom. The object of the following treatise is to set forth as concisely as possible the nature of the still extensive Turkish vocabulary current in Serbo-Croatian, and especially to illustrate the phonetic changes which have taken place in the Turkish material and the manner in which this material is still used. It will be observed that there are two distinct divisions of SerboCroatian which have fallen under this Oriental influence; viz., the purely Serbian idiom, which has retained in the speech of daily life a large number of Turkish substantives, most of which are still known to the vast majority of grown persons in Serbia proper; and, secondly, the language used by the Moslem Slav population of Bosnia-Herzegovina, which is much more Turkified than the Serb proper and, in fact, may be spoken in such a way as to be quite unintelligible in Belgrade. The pure Croatian of Zagreb (Agram) has largely thrown aside these alien elements and substituted many words of genuine Slavic composition and origin, chiefly for concrete objects, which are still expressed by the corresponding Turkish phrases in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In this article I give, first, a specimen of the most extreme dialect, which would be unintelligible to the average Serb; secondly, a list of the most striking phonetic changes which now largely disguise some of the Turkish elements in this hybrid Slav idiom, followed

Practical Grammar of the Serbo-Croatian Language

Practical Grammar of the Serbo-Croatian Language