The oldest present-day accentual type of the Posavian vernacular

Abstract

At the beginning of the last century Stjepan Ivšić provided data on the accentual picture of the Posavian vernaculars in Slavonia, simultaneously drawing the borderlines of the oldest accentual type of the Posavian vernacular. Today, following the field work in the region, the same data have undergone verification and this paper considers the present-day accentual situation in that region in the light of the most recent data, giving special concern to the data Ivšić provided.

Keywords

• Slavonian dialect
• Posavian vernacular
• Ikavojekavian vernaculars
• Ivšić’s accentual groups