期刊名称：LAHOR: journal for Croatian as mother, second and foreign lanugage
印刷版ISSN：1846-2197
电子版ISSN：1848-4972
出版年度：2009
卷号：2
期号：8
页码：155-169
出版社：Crotian Philological Society
摘要：Caraşovian speeches, preserved for centuries in seven villages in Banat, are continuously exposed to the impact of the Romanian language. Changes in the system of gender, more specifically neuter in the Croatian language which is spoken in the village of Caraşova, can be attributed to the influence of the Romanian language. In Caraşovian speech, the pronoun `ono' (`it') as a personal pronoun does not exist anymore, and a neuter noun is replaced by a masculine gender pronoun `on' (`him'), which corresponds to the situation in the Romanian language. Using the masculine form of `on' (`him') affects attributes or parts of predicate, which also appear in masculine gender, matching the pronoun. Generally, in sentences in which the subject (neuter) is dropped, adjectives appear as masculine. But if the subject is explicit, the adjective is usually in neuter singular (with rare exceptions), but in plural adjective words come both in neuter and masculine gender. Although this process significantly influenced the structure of speech, the gender system is still preserved, but there are clear trends towards the reduction of the system with three branches (masculine, feminine and neuter) to two (masculine and feminine).
关键词：Caraşova; neuter; Romanian; Croatian; languages in contact
