THE EXPRESSION OF ADVERBIAL QUALIFICATON IN THE SPEECH OF PRESCHOOL AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN FROM VRANJE

Abstract

This paper analyses the case constructions that preschool and elementary school children from Vranje use to express adverbial qualification. The aim of this paper is to determine which case forms preschool and elementary school children from Vranje use to express the category of adverbial qualification and in which case structures standard language case form enters most easely. The speech of 40 examinees of different age, sex, place of residence, parents’ education was analyzed. The material was collected by the method of spontaneous conversation. Аll recorded case forms are analyzed and described by the descriptive method.The most stable analytical form are determined by the percentage analysis. The conducted analysis showed that preschool and elementary school children from Vranje express the meaning of adverbial qualification by the analytical constructions in fuction of genitives, accusatives, instrumentasl and locatives. They are used to express the meaning of instrumentation, mediativity, comitivity, criteria, distributivity and comparativity. However, under the influence of standard language, the infiltration of flective form was recorded. The standard case form influences most intensively on the analytic construction in the fuction of the genitive. On the other hand, the construction in the fuction of locative is more resistant to the influence of lingustic standard. Considering that the study of the dialect syntax of cases and the speech of children is rarity in dialectological researches, the conducted research is justified and important for further researches in this field and for the teaching of Sebian grammar in Prizren-Timok speaking area.

Keywords

• adverbial qualification
• speech of children from vranje
• declension
• analytism
• standard linguistic case form