Are we witnessing a renesance of the dialectology?

Slavistics is a relatively young linguistic discipline. Its beginnings, in the period of domination of the historical linguistics, are characterized with the rapid development of the “classical“ dialectology, which means field-work in the domain of comparative phonetics and inflection leading to the defining of the kinship relations in the Slavic group of the IndoEuropean languages. Only after the First World War observe a shift to the synchronic linguistics with the focus on the functional analysis of standard Slavic languages. In the period between the two World Wars in the Northern Slavic countries dialectology is not a part of the university program, while in the South it has more pertinent position. The dominant analytical studies follow the line: form > function > meaning, and concentrate mainly on the grammatical and not on the lexical language structure. In the period after the Second World War multiply theories starting with the sense analysis. It is in the framework of these theories and in connection with the trend to interdisciplinary “human-studies“ in historical anthropology, ethnology, psychology, history of the material and spiritual culture that the dialectology is rediscovered as a rich source of new information. Macedonian dialects, which for a long period evolved without the pressure of a standard norm are especially interesting from that point of view