Prekmurje Slovene grammar : Avgust Pavel's Vend nyelvtan (1942) / critical edition and translation from Hungarian by Marc L. Greenberg.
"The Vend nyelvtan is a grammar completed in 1942 by the linguist Avgust Pavel that was designed to serve as a modern standard for the Prekmurje Slovenes who were to be subjects of Hungary. Though the grammar was meant to divide the Prekmurje Slovenes from the Slovenes of Yugoslavia, it was nev...
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| Other title: | Prekmurska slovenska slovnica. English Vend nyelvtan. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Hungarian |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill Rodopi,
[2020]
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| Series: | Studies in Slavic and general linguistics ;
v. 47. |
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| Summary: | "The Vend nyelvtan is a grammar completed in 1942 by the linguist Avgust Pavel that was designed to serve as a modern standard for the Prekmurje Slovenes who were to be subjects of Hungary. Though the grammar was meant to divide the Prekmurje Slovenes from the Slovenes of Yugoslavia, it was never put into use. Today it serves as a reflection of the lexical and grammatical peculiarities of the Prekmurje dialect as it was spoken during Pavel's lifetime (1886-1946). The English translation of the grammar, originally written in Hungarian, offers linguists insight into a key part of the remarkable variation in Slovene. A peripheral area of Slovene, the Prekmurje dialect is in contact with German, Hungarian, and Croatian Kajkavian"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xxvii, 215 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789004419117 900441911X |
| ISSN: | 0169-0124 ; |