Innovations in the Kajkavian Dialect of Bednja

Abstract

Layout apart, the present version reproduces the printed text faithfully, but a handful (appr. 15) of obvious typos and minor infelicities have been tacitly corrected and one or two inadequate glosses of dialect words have been replaced with others. In addition the page numbers of the original edition have been added, as in the following example: "not |352| state", meaning that "not" is the last word on p. 351 and "state" the first on p. 352. Where words were originally printed partly on one and partly on another page, page numbers have been put after them rather than in the middle, as in "unattested |104|" instead of *"unatte-|104|sted".-12 There are several other kajkavian dialects with a deviating reflex of strong jer in those positions in which it alternates with zero, e.g. (a) Virje: ъ or zero vs. the regular reflex e, cf. Fancev 1907: 316-20, (b) Gornja Stubica: ə or zero vs. ẹ or e, cf. õtəc (Jakoby 1974: 38) 'father', dȏužən (o.c. 40)/dȏužn (o.c. 40, 47) 'indebted', alongside forms with ẹ, cf. õtẹc (o.c. 40, 43)/ȍtẹc (o.c. 237) (Jakoby's transcription has been slightly simplified in these examples), (c) Prodindol: a vs. the regular reflex e, cf. Rožić 1893-4 I: 72f. This phenomenon merits a closer investigation. 13 The form klúnjec must be a printer's error instead of *klũnjec. lt is the only example in which the diacritic ˊ appears on another vowel than y, cf. above, section 1.1.