Unele particularităţi ale sistemului verbal al graiurilor băieşilor din Baranja şi Medjimurje, Croaţia
A few characteristics of the verbal system of the Bayash vernaculars from Baranja and Medjimurje, Croatia

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the Romanian vernaculars of the Bayash in Croatia, on the basis of the material recorded by the author in 2006. After a brief overview of the language spoken by the Bayash, their traditional occupation and spread in the Balkans, the author focuses on the communities in Croatia, carefully examining the verbal system of the two Romanian variants in use in the regions of Baranja and Medjimurje. She points out to their peculiarities and tries to determine the extent to which the contact Serbo-Croatian idiom influenced the morphology of the verb. The author notices that the lack of normative instances and the diglossia of these two communities allowed them to develop in a direction partially unknown to the other Romanian dialects in Romania. As well, the ‘norm’ of this linguistic system is very flexible and tolerant, the system being extremely elastic and permitting the parallel coexistence of more units with the same function.

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