OBLICI INFINITIVA U GOVORU TUTINA, NOVOG PAZARA I SJENICE

Abstract

This paper analyzes the morphology of the infinitive forms used in Tutin, Novi Pazar and Sjenica vernacular. The infinitive forms are determined based on the corpus material collected from native dialect speakers. Unlike the majority of Štokavian speeches and the standard language, the infinitive is well preserved with all its inherited syntactic functions in the examined idiom and its features are relatively uniform in the entire dialectal area. However, there are certain variations in terms of infinitive morphology. The main variation is that longer forms with word-final -и are only present in one part of the territory while they are absent in the other part where only shorter forms can be found. The analysis will show that the existence of two zones is primarily affected by regional factors, i.e. the morphological differentiation results from the specific territorial positions of the dialectal zones and their linguistic contacts with other dialects.