Dialekt kreteński języka nowogreckiego – próba opisu na bazie materiału hydronimicznego, część 2: morfologia i leksyka
The Cretan dialect of the Modern Greek language – a preliminary description on the basis of hydronymic data, part 2: morphology and vocabulary

Summary/Abstract: The paper, which supplements an earlier article [Kaczyńska, 2014a, s. 93–120], presents an overview of different features of the Cretan dialect of Modern Greek on the basis of the island’s modern hydronymy. The author discusses 18 morphological phenomena connected with Common Cretan word-formation and nominal flexion. Some of them demonstrate an archaic (Ancient Greek) character. There are clear traces of ancient Doric speech in the vernacular vocabulary, as well as in the Modern Cretan water names. The Cretan dialect was strongly influenced by the Italian language during the Venetian occupation of the island (1204–1669). The Turkish language contributed significantly to the dialect’s lexicon by supplying numerous loanwords absorbed during the Ottoman rule in Crete (1669–1898). Some Cretan dialectisms seem to derive from Arabic. Lexical borrowings from South Slavic, Albanian and Romanian are sparse

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