РЕЧНИК ПРИЧЕ О БОЈУ КОСОВСКОМ (РУКОПИС ИЛИЈЕ ЈОВАНОВА)
THE DICTIONARY OF THE STORY OF THE BATTLE OF KOSOVO (THE MANUSCRIPT BY ILIJA JOVANOV)

Summary/Abstract: This paper represents a dictionary of one of the versions of The Story of the Battle of Kosovo – The Manuscript by Ilija Jovanov, written in the mid-18th century. The text is written in the Old Serbian language, with sporadic lexical items from the Serbian Church Slavonic system (like dašti). On the basis of some specific dialectal words, like čoek, it is assumed that the manuscript originates from Montenegro. It is written in the minuscule script, the orthography is not standardized, and both ekavian and ijekavian forms are present. Due to the fact that the lexicon of the pre-standard period of the Serbian vernaculars has not been thoroughly investigated yet, this paper can be regarded as a modest contribution to the understanding of the lexical structure of Serbian language of that epoch.

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