ЛИНГВИСТИЧКА ЗАПАЖАЊА ГРИГОРИЈА БОЖОВИЋА
LINGUISTIC COMMENTS OF GRIGORIJE BOŽOVIĆ

Summary/Abstract: The paper explains that the famous writer Grigorije Božović had linguistic knowledge and in many of his texts raised various linguistic issues. The material was excerpted from Božović’s travel writing, which is around 1500 pages long. These documentary forms, in addition to offering descriptions of events, people, regions and everything else found in the world that Božović writes about, also provided insight into the vernacular of a certain region, stylistic features of speakers, syntactic characteristics, the wealth of semantics of certain words, etc. In sketching the dialectal features the writer points to the fact that some cases were preserved, to the role of demonstrative pronouns, to the lack of article in a sentence, but he also makes interesting parallels between the vernaculars of different geographic areas. Having in mind the diversity of linguistic issues that occur in the material, we will apply the criterion of linguistic disciplinarity to classify as linguostylistic, sociolinguistic and systemic-linguistic the views of this significant Serbian writer who wrote travelogues about Old Serbia at the beginning of the 20th century.

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