Slavenski genitiv u bosanskohercegovačkim govorima
Slavic gentive in Bosnian-Herzegovinian dialects

Summary/Abstract: In Bosnian-Herzegovinian dialects Slavic genitive is still quite a living category, which is the fact recorded by most of dialectologists. However, as an accusative sometimes occurs in place of a genitive, this paper aims to find the conditions under which the Slavic genitive appears. Based on literature data, it was examined whether the phenomenon of the Slavic genitive depends on the word class in the object position, then on individualization of a noun in the object position (whether the noun is proper or common, concrete or abstract, countable or uncountable, in singular or plural, animate or inanimate, definite or indefinite, topicalized or neutral, and whether there is an intensifier or not), or it comprises the scope of negation intensity (whether the predicate is simple or complex with the infinitive, whether the verb is perfective or imperfective, in indicative or other mood, static or dynamic). The corpus data has shown that the phenomenon of the Slavic genitive is conditioned by the noun, and not the pronoun in the object position, or the presence of the intensifier, which suggests that the Slavic genitive in Bosnian-Herzegovinian dialects is present as a rule, and not an exception conditioned by a syntactic and semantic environment, and what is more, it carries a certain dose of stylogenic quality.

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