Accent Paradigms of Nominal e-Stems and i-Stems in the Slivno Municipality

Abstract

This paper is based on a fieldwork material and provides a synchronic overview of accentuation paradigms of nominal e-stems and i-stems of Slivno municipality speech varieties found in Slivno Ravno, Mihalj, Blace and Podgradina. These speeches belong to Eastern Herzegovinian border dialect and Slivno-Zažablje speech type. It will be determined whether there are oscillations within particular paradigm and among paradigms as well as whether the accent shortness has been preserved in dative, locative and instrumental plural.

Keywords

• Štokavian dialect
• Slivno
• nominal <i>e</i>-stems
• nominal <i>i</i>-stems
• accent paradigms