PECULIARITIES OF ASKING A QUESTION IN THE SPEECH OF RECHANE VILLAGE, PRIZRENSKO

Abstract

The article is a result of the study in connection of the execution of the project “The speech of Rechane village, Prizrensko (with a particular overview of the morphological system)” of SBDLG to IBE “prof. Lyubomir Andrejchin” – BAS. Its main goal is to present the ways of asking a question in the analyzed dialect, which are interesting with their diversity. The reason for this is to be found in the "mixed" nature of the speech, a definition traditionally given to dialects located outside our state borders, and attributed to their influence, to a greater or lesser extent, by the official language of the state, in the borders of which they are located, or from neighboring languages of important importance for the community from a religious, social or other point of view. Such is the situation with the speech of Rechane village, Prizrensko, located in the district of Sredska Zhupa, Republic of Kosovo - on the western border of the Bulgarian linguistic territory. Although from a synchronic point of view it is characterized by the presence of all the diagnostic marks of our language, its "mixed" character is the main reason why, in the spirit of the linguistic tradition in Serbia and Yugoslavia from the end of the 19th century, the population of the region was defined as Serbian, and as a result of tolerating the "self-determination" of the new independent states that emerged after the breakup of the Republic of Yugoslavia within the borders of the Slavic world and to the study of their "micro-languages" - such as Macedonian or even Bosnian. That is why it is of particular importance to prove its belonging to the Bulgarian linguistic continuum by studying the Rechanian speech from a synchronic point of view at all linguistic levels and thus to determine the location of the western border of our linguistic land. Moreover, the analyzed dialect system shows "mixedness" not only in terms of foreign language influences, but also due to the combination of features from the Western and Eastern Bulgarian dialect as a result of the historical fate of the region, which makes its study important from the point of view of the study of the continuity of the Bulgarian language continuum. This is precisely the purpose of this article, whose main object of research is some basic syntactic phenomena, the analysis of which is based on material personally collected by the author during the conduct of candidate student courses in Bulgarian language, literature, history and culture for the Bulgarian minority there in the period 2015–2019.