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The Position of Kajkavian in the South Slavic Dialect Continuum in Light of Old Accentual Isoglosses

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Summary

All South Slavic languages, from Bulgaria in the South-East to Slovenia in the North-West, are part of a dialect continuum. This paper outlines the position of what is traditionally called Kajkavian in that continuum in light of old accentual isoglosses. Kajkavian shares several old prosodic-phonological isoglosses with Slovene (such as the rise of the neocircumflex), while on the other hand it is connected with Western Štokavian and Čakavian through some morphological-categorial accentual isoglosses (like the innovative accent of the infinitive and l-participle).


Note

This paper is complementary to the detailed accentual analyses laid out in the monograph Kapović 2015. The specific details of the accentual changes and processes (such as the rise of the neocircumflex) are dealt with extensively in the monograph (together with the discussion and appropriate references) and are therefore not repeated here, where the focus is on the position of Kajkavian in the South Slavic dialect continuum (in view of the oldest prosodic changes) and not on the exact details of the accentual processes themselves.


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