This article aims to present and describe the situation of the literary language of the Molise Slavs. In the last decades, various scholars have expressed their views on this issue with some of them claiming that Molise Slavic is a literary language, whilst by the other ones this vernacular was denied such right. Although Alexandr D. Dulichenko – who coined the term „Slavic literarymicrolanguage” – dated its literary traditions back to the 19th century, some scholars perceive the 18th or 20th centuries as the beginning of the literature written in Molise Slavic (MSl). Consequently, this led to ambiguity that this article is trying to clarify. Until recently, this vernacular was prevalently used for poetry and short prose, but with recent publications of Nicola Gliosca’s novels, Molise Slavic is now on its way to develop as a full-fledged literary language. According to typology presented by Antoni Furdal, MSl can now – with presence of translations – be classified as a „literary language with limited sphere of use”.
Badanie konceptu wolności w języku molizańsko-chorwackim i burgenlandzko-chorwackim pokazało, że w molizańsko-chorwackim nie występuje leksem słowiańskiej proweniencji, którym wyrażany jest ten koncept. Zamiast tego używa się zapożyczenia (italianizm liberta), które jednak nie zostało poświadczone w dwóch słownikach wydanych w 2000 r., nie pojawia się również w stosunkowo niewielkiej spuściźnie literackiej molizańskich Chorwatów. W burgenlandzko-chorwackim mikrojęzyku znany jest wyraz sloboda (tak jak w chorwackim języku standardowym), który razem z innymi derywatami od rdzenia slob- jest potwierdzony w słowniku burgenlandzko-chorwacko-niemieckim, a także w licznych tekstach literackich i prasowych oraz przysłowiach. Ankiety przeprowadzone w dwóch starych chorwackich diasporach (po ok. 40 ankietowanych) pokazują, że koncept wolności można opisać szeregiem ok. piętnastu charakterystyk. W obu wspomnianych wspólnotach cechy te są różne. U molizańskich Chorwatów na pierwszym miejscu pod względem liczby wskazań wyróżniony został opis „możliwość swobodnego działania” (28%), a drugie miejsce zajmuje „możliwość wyrażania myśli i poglądów” (18%). W burgenlandzko-chorwackim obie te cechy są niemal równoważne (odpowiednio 23,75% i 22,50%). Wśród pozostałych cech molizańscy Chorwaci wyróżnili przede wszystkim te wskazujące na aksjologiczny aspekt konceptu wolności, u burgenlandzkich Chorwatów natomiast odgrywał on rolę poślednią w odróżnieniu od aspektów: psychicznego, psychospołecznego, etycznego i politycznego. Na uwagę zasługuje też fakt, że uwidocznione w ankietach z obszaru Burgenlandu cechy „(korzystanie z) przyjemności” oraz „bezpieczeństwa (spokoju)” nie wystąpiły w ogóle wśród użytkowników molizańsko-chorwackiego, a także chorwackiego języka standardowego.
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This paper analyses and compares the linguistic picture of freedom, or rather, the concept of freedom in these two Croatian ethnic/language communities (Molise Croatian and Burgenland Croatian), whose language has been developing independently for centuries under the strong influence of the linguistic cultures within which they represent Slavic islands (Romance influence in Molise and German influence in Burgenland, although there is some Hungarian and Western Slavic influence among Burgenland Croats). This research relies on the main theoretical foundations and methodological assumptions of the Polish (Lublin) ethnolinguistic school (with certain limitations). After an introduction, the first part of the following chapter on the concept of freedom shall contain a discussion on the basis of lexicographic descriptions and written sources, while the second part shall contain a discussion on the basis of the results of the survey.
Riprendendo l’idea di Seiler e di Heine, il possesso è la relazione che si instaura tra due costituenti, possessore (possessor) e posseduto (possessum). Il possesso linguistico può essere di diverso tipo: permanente, fisico, inalienabile, astratto ecc. Sia in italiano che in croato il possesso è reso con aggettivi, pronomi e sintagmi preposizionali, ma il croato possiede il caso morfologico per esprimere il possesso. In italiano il possesso è reso con gli aggettivi e i pronomi possessivi (mia sorella) e il complemento di specificazione possessiva (la sorella di Mira). In croato esso è espresso ugualmente (moja sestra); con il dativo dei pronomi personali (sestra mi); con l’aggettivo possessivo (cr. posvojni pridjev) (Mirina sestra); con il doppio genitivo possessivo (sestra mojega oca); con il complemento di specificazione possessiva nelle varietà substandard (sestra od Mire). Il contributo indaga i mezzi per esprimere il possesso nel croato molisano, varietà štokavo-ikava in uso nell’isola linguistica della minoranza croata in Italia, in Molise, da una prospettiva contattologica e contrastiva e in base ai dati del corpus. Come a tutti i livelli linguistici, si stabilisce che anche nei mezzi per esprimere il possesso il croato molisano presenta usi e forme conservativi, croati, e innovativi, derivati dal contatto con l’italiano e la varietà abruzzese-molisana. Il possesso nel croato molisano si esprime con i pronomi possessivi (cr. posvojne zamjenice/pridjevi) (moja sestra); il dativo dei pronomi personali (sestra mi); l’aggettivo possessivo (cr. posvojni pridjev) (sestra Mirina); il complemento di specificazione possessiva (sestra do Mire); il doppio genitivo possessivo (sestra mojoga oca). Lo scopo della presente ricerca corpus-based è l’analisi dell’influsso dell’italiano e della varietà abruzzese-molisana sulla morfosintassi e sulla distribuzione dei possessivi nel croato molisano.
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Following the proposal in Seiler and Heine, possession is defined in terms of relationship between two entities, called possessor and possessed. Linguistic possession can be of different types: permanent, physical, inalienable, abstract, etc. In Italian and Croatian, possession is expressed by adjectives, pronouns, and prepositional phrases. In Croatian, it can be expressed also by morphological cases. In Italian, possession is rendered with possessive adjectives and pronouns (mia sorella) and the complement of possessive specification (la sorella di Mira). In Croatian, it is expressed equally (moja sestra); with the dative of the personal pronouns (sestra mi); with the possessive adjectives (posvojni pridjev; Mirina sestra); with the double genitive (sestra mojega oca); with the complement of possessive specification in the substandard varieties (sestra od Mire). The contribution investigates the ways to express possession in Molise Croatian, a štokavo-ikavo variety in use in the linguistic island of the Croatian minority in Italy, in Molise, from a contact-linguistics and contrastive perspective. As at all linguistic levels, when indicating ownership, Molise Croatian has conservative, Croatian, and innovative uses and forms, derived from contact with Italian and the Abruzzo-Molisan variety. In Molise Croatian, one can express ownership by using possessive pronouns (posvojne zamjenice/pridjevi; moja sestra); the dative of personal pronouns (sestra mi); the possessive adjective (posvojni pridjev; sestra Mirina); the complement of possessive specification (sestra do Mire); the double genitive (sestra mojoga oca). The main objective of this corpus-based research is to analyse and describe the influence of Italian and of the Abruzzo-Molisan variety on the morphosyntax and the distribution of possessives in Molise Croatian.
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