Una Proposta per a l'atles dels vestigis lexicals dalmàtics a la Riba oriental de l'Adriàtic

Abstract

A proposal for the Atlas of Vestigial Dalmatian Lexis from the east coast of the Adriatic
Historical Dalmatian dialectology has been dominated for a long time by concern for sound change, beginning with the first studies by Bartoli and Rosenkranz up to the more recent contributions of Muljačić. And quite rightly so, since we are dealing with a lingüístic domain whose morphosyntax is only partially known, and only in the case of vegliotto, the most widely studied variety. For these very same reasons, lexical differences between the Dalmatian dialects have been largely neglected. However, the Croatian varieties spoken on the coast and islands still contain more than a thousand words of Dalmatian, notably in the semantic fields of fishing, navegation and other Mediterranean activities. My intention here is to attempt a preliminary dialectal classification of Dalmatian Romance lexis based on Dalmatian forms in Croatian fishing terminology collected from questionnaires presented in more than 180 places on the Croatian coast.