The Međimurje dialect

U radu se daje sažeti prikaz autorovih istraživanja međimurskih govora i govora pomurskih Hrvata. To je područje do sada bilo preslabo jezično istraženo. Gubitak opreke po kvantiteti i modulaciji i njihova prefonologizacija u kvalitetu samoglasnika temeljna je značajka toga dijalekta. Autor je međimurski dijalekt podijelio na 3 poddijalekta na temelju kombinacije dvaju važnih dijakronih fonoloških kriterija: a) odnos refleksa jata i poluglasa (ə) u naglašenoj poziciji b) odnos refleksa slogotvornoga i stražnjega nazala ǫ u naglašenoj poziciji. Poddijalekte je podijelio na skupine pomoću 30 odabranih fonoloških i morfoloških kriterija. U radu se dalje opisuju najvažnije fonološke i morfološke osobine i daje njihova teritorijalna rasprostranjenost. Na kraju se daje pregled relevantnih osobina pojedinih govora u susjedstvu međimurskoga dijalekta.The paper gives a short account of the author\u27s research of the speeches of Međimurje and the speeches of Croats from the Hungarian Pomurje region. That region has not been properly linguistically analyzed up to now. The most important characteristic features of that dialect are the loss of the qunatity and modulation opposition and their prephonologization into the quality of the vowels. The author has divided the dialect of Međimurje into three subdialects. The division was based on the combination of two important diacronic phonological criteria: a) the relationship between the reflex of jat and the semi-vowel ə in the stressed position b) the reflex syllabic (vocalic) and the back nasal ǫ in the stressed position. He divided the subdialect into groups according to 30 selected phonological and morphological criteria. The paper also describes the most important phonological and morphological features and gives their territorial distribution. In its final section the paper gives a survey of the relevant features of some particular speeches spoken in the neighbourhood of the dialect of Međimurje