Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini (Jan 2013)
Certain characteristics of the Serbian dialects from Kosovo and Metohija in Petar D. Petrović's short stories
Abstract
Petar D. Petrović, a teacher, was born in a prominent mercantile family in Peć in 1881. He had graduated from theology school in Prizren and worked as a teacher in Gnjilane, Priština, Prizren and Peć. He used to send short stories and notes concerning life and work of Serbs in the area of today’s Kosovo and Metohija to a various newspapers and magazines which were printed from Constantinople to Belgrade and Novi Sad. In the magazine Zastava, Svetozar Miletić’s journal of the National Radical Party in Novi Sad, he has published 24 short stories between 1906 and 1912 and one short story in the illustrated magazine ,,Graničar". The subject of our research here are speech properties of Prizren - South Moravian and Kosovo - Resavian dialects which are registered in characters’ speech described in Petrovic’s prose originating from different regions: Kosovo Pomoravian, Priština, from Prizren and its surroundings and from northern Metohija. We have also analyzed dialecticism recorded in the speech of the writer.
