摘要：This article contains a description of the morphological system of the varietiesof the Podravina Kajkavian dialect, whose main characteristic is that the place ofstress is limited to the last two syllables of a word or accentual unit. It analysesdialectological data from a total of 22 Kajkavian local varieties geographicallylocated in the north of Croatia. Local varieties of the Podravina Kajkavian dialecthave preserved a number of archaic characteristics in the morphological system:the supine; special forms of the dative, locative, and instrumental plural (in mostvarieties); the zero ending in the genitive plural of e-type nouns (for the mostpart); and the old form of the genitive pronoun for non-living things česa (exceptin the eastern part of the region). In most varieties of the dialect, the present verbending -jo / -j is limited to type V (with some minor deviations).On the other hand, these varieties have also undergone numerous changes intheir morphological systems, as have most varieties of the Kajkavian dialect group.These include the loss of the dual (except for a few surviving forms accompanyingthe numbers dva ‘two’, tri ‘three’, and četiri ‘four’); a reduction in thenumber of declinations; the simplification of verb and noun base forms by a reductionin the number of alternations; the loss of distinction between living andnon-living in the accusative singular of a-type masculine nouns; the loss of theaorist, the imperfect, and the past participle ending in -v, -vši; and the reductionto one future tense.In addition to those innovative features which have become common to a greatmajority of Kajkavian varieties and dialects, the Podravina Kajkavian dialect alsofeatures some innovations that have arisen either from internal development orunder the influence of the Štokavian systems with which it borders. The influenceof Štokavian is most prominent in the easternmost local varieties of the PodravinaKajkavian dialect, which is to be expected due to their direct contact.In the eastern region of the Podravina Kajkavian dialect, the following innovationshave occurred: the leveling of plural forms for dative, locative, and instrumentalin noun and adjective-pronoun declension (e.g., in DLI pl. of e-type nouns,the endings -ama / -amā; in DLI pl. of a-type nouns, the ending - prevails); the ending-ā in the nominative and accusative plural of a-type neuter nouns (also occurringin some western local varieties of the dialect); the L and I plural pronounforms nȁma / namȃ, vȁma / vamȃ; in the extreme eastern varieties, (t)ko appearsas a pronoun for living things (as opposed to most varieties, in which štȍ has themeaning of ‘who’); in some varieties, the new form for the genitive pronoun fornon-living (čega) has prevailed.More western varieties of the Podravina Kajkavian dialect (those to the westof Đurđevec) are more conservative in terms of preserving the older state both inphonology and in morphology, although they feature innovations, as well: the ending- in the genitive plural of e-type nouns that can appear with all base forms, asopposed to the zero ending, which can appear only with nouns that do not end ina consonant cluster; in some varieties, in 3 pl. present, the ending -jo / -j appearsin all types of verbs, not only in type V; in some local varieties, in the declensionof adjectives, a levelling of the endings for the nominative plural of feminineand neuter nouns has occurred.In spite of all the observed morphological and phonological distinctions accordingto which we can divide Podravina Kajkavian varieties into smaller subgroups,they do form a whole, and as a group we can categorize them as a separate dialectof Kajkavian. This is not only because of their unique and special accentuation,but also because of an important morphological feature that is of primary significancein the determination of the membership of a specific variety to the commondialect – namely, the ending of the instrumental singular in e-type nouns, whichin all varieties of the Podravina Kajkavian dialect is -ōm (ženȏm, rōkȏm / r̄kȏm).
关键词：Croatian language;Kajkavian dialect group;dialect of Podravina;morphological system
