Full Description
Slovene is one of the most dialectally diverse languages of Europe, consisting of 37 dialects. This book gives a detailed description of one of the most archaic dialects of Slovene: the dialect spoken in the Gail Valley (Gailtal) in the Austrian state of Carinthia (Kärnten). The Gailtal dialect is part of the Slovene minority language in Austria and is spoken by an ever decreasing number of speakers. The volume at hand describes the phonology, morphophonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of the dialect. A separate chapter is devoted to the preservation and development of the common Slavic pitch accent in the Gailtal dialect and in Slovene in general. The book will be of interest to scholars in Slavic linguistics, language contact, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and typology.
Contents
Abbreviations
Maps
Introduction
Phonology
Morphonology
Nominal morphology
Verbal morphology
Notes on syntax and semantics
Dialect texts
History of the Gailtal accentuation
Appendix I: Irregular verbal flection
Appendix II: Verbal prefixes
Appendix III: Local toponymy
Lexicon
Index
Bibliography
