SINTAKSA REČENICE U SRPSKOJ DIJALEKTOLOGIJI: ASPEKTI I REZULTATI DOSADAŠNJIH I PRAVCI BUDUĆIH ISTRAŽIVANJA

Abstract

An overview of the existing research on sentence syntax in Serbian dialects is provided in the paper. Consulting available dialectological studies, the author summarizes conclusions and points out the frequently mentioned problem of the unexplored nature of this linguistic level. The review is organized according to the dialects in the paper, whereby studies and individual papers, along with their conclusions, are presented in chronological order. It has been shown that, apart from two doctoral dissertations addressing this issue, no comprehensive study has been published solely dedicated to the syntax of colloquial sentences. All information related to this question in scientific literature is found in the form of incidental remarks in relatively small sections of studies traditionally focused on examining prosodic, phonetic, or morphological aspects. The aim of the paper is thus to emphasize the necessity of this type of research so that the rich linguistic material that provides the opportunity to draw theoretically significant linguistic conclusions, will not remain undiscovered and unknown to the scientific community. By reviewing the available literature, we conclude that the least examined dialects of the Serbian language include the Smederevo-Vršac and Šumadija-Vojvodina dialects. The Kosovo-Raška and Zeta-Sjenica dialects, as well as the speech of the Priština-Timočka zone, have been somewhat more frequently studied by dialectologists, and there is more extensive material published about them. Finally, the most examined idiom includes the Herzegovina-Krajina dialect. The author’s conclusion in the paper is that the necessity of examining the syntactic linguistic level of Serbian dialects is evident. Serbian dialectology still awaits a monographic publication solely dedicated to presenting syntactic issues of Serbian speech.