Govor Preševa
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Trajković, TatjanaMentor
Marković, JordanaCommittee members
Jović, NadeždaBošnjaković, Žarko
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Preševo municipality is situated in the furthest south of Serbia, from the
Macedonian border in the south, the administrative border with Kosovo and Metohija in
the west and the municipalities of Bujanovac and Trgovište in the northeast. It covers the
town center of Preševo and 34 villages. This area is mostly inhabited by Serbs and
Albanians.
The speech in Preševo area, considered in the context of the Serbian dialectology,
was the subject of Danilo Barjaktarevic research (Preševo-Bujanovac speaking zone),
but its analysis and conclusions set out in forty pages, are fragmentary and, at the very
least, incomplete. In addition, numerous sociological events began to change the picture
of the of the Serbian language prevalence in this part of Serbia. This work emerged as a
result of a need for a more detailed study of Serbian speech in Preševo area.
The analysis of Serbian speech in Preševo municipality was done in two ways: 1.
The first part of the paper deals with the classical dialecto...logical processing of the
collected material from Preševo town and its villages, 2. The second part of the paper
includes the urban Preševo speech based on modern sociolinguistic methods.
The paper consists of four chapters: Introductory remarks, Phonetics,
Morphology, Syntax, Sociolinguistic movements, Concluding remarks and Texts. The
conclusions that largely represent novelties in lingua geographical sense are made in the
first part (the second, third and fourth chapter), while the second part (the fifth chapter)
according to its statistical results suggests possible directions for Serbian Preševo speech.
The conclusions that were reached in the work:
1. According to all its properties Preševo speech belongs to the southernmost type
of South-Morava speech, to Prizren-Timok dialect area, which is characterized by
Macedonisms: the withdrawal of the accent from the last syllable, paradigmatic accent, -u
in the first person singular in present tense, generalizing -le in the plural of active verbal
adjective;
2. Presevo speech is marked by distinctive analytism reflected in the doubling of
personal pronouns with the use of adverbs;
3. It is shown that the Preševo area is rich in isoglosses represented on the maps in
the work;
4. The sociolinguistic analysis brought the results that indicate the reduction of
dialectal features in the town speech, which is even more emphasised in the case of
diglossia.
The study of Preševo speech raises the question of unexplored speeches in
neighboring areas (such as Bujanovac), and implicitly suggests the need for research of
speeches in small towns of Prizren-Timok dialect area, as well as other Serbian dialects.