Utjecaj usmene epske formule na jezički izraz sevdalinke
IMPACT OF ORAL EPIC FORMULA TO LINGUISTIC IDIOM OF SEVDALINKA

Summary/Abstract: This paper will give a partial list and description of linguistic characteristics of sevdalinka from a certain number of existing print collections. The focus of the paper will be given to description of those linguistic structures which are caused by epic formula, i.e. oral grammar of text. Besides, we will point out the fact that the linguistic idiom of sevdalinka itself, significantly depends on poetic and stylistic characteristics of songs. Linguistic description will be focused on some aspects of linguistic structure of sevdalinka, in order to point that the paper will be focused on existence of mutual linguistic elements in all varieties of oral poetic opus in Bosnian language: epic, lyric and epic-lyric poem, that include and some other, even non-linguistic observations connected with this issue. Such selection of linguistic elements fits into the immanent linguistic patterns of oral poetry, and using of certain linguistic varieties, regardless how much the poem’s text is shaped on certain standard procedures, particularly on the level of phonetics, phonology and grammar, and even the vocabulary, in extremely small percentage. This means that the question of song’s origin is not relevant when we consider such methodology, unlike some other studies where the essence of methodology is just criterion of song’s origin.

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