Romance expressions in Njegoš’s „Lažni car Šćepan Mali“ (The False Czar Šćepan the Small) Cover Image

Романизми у Његошевом "Лажном цару Шћепану Малом"
Romance expressions in Njegoš’s „Lažni car Šćepan Mali“ (The False Czar Šćepan the Small)

Author(s): Bogdan L. Dabić
Subject(s): Lexis, Sociolinguistics, Montenegrine Literature
Published by: Institut za jezik
Keywords: Lažni car Šćepan Mali; romance expression; Petar II Petrović-Njegoš; lexis; Italianisms;

Summary/Abstract: A lexical layer of Njegoš’s vocabulary in »Lažni car Šćepan Mali« — Romance expressions — is analyzed in the paper. It has been concluded that there are not many Romance expressions, about 50; that they have been unevenly distributed in the work (the majority of them are in Dejstvije I (First Act), and then their number decreases); that they are almost all irreplaceable; that Italian expressions are prevalent among the Romance expressions over the Latinisms and Gallicisms.

  • Issue Year: 16/1987
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 144-147
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Croatian, Serbian