Accent Paradigms Of Adjectives In The Slivno Municipality

This paper is based on materials gathered in the field and provides a synchronic overview of the accent paradigms of adjectives in the Slivno municipality speech varieties found in Slivno Ravno, Mihalj, Blace and Podgradina. These speeches belong to the Eastern Herzegovinian border dialect and the Slivno-Zaiablje speech type. Furthermore, accent variations in the other explored tokavian speeches will be determined. Root (suffix-less) adjectives in the Slivno municipality speech varieties do not show the old a. p. a and a. p. b, but are mosdy formed as a part of the a. p. C: Talc-laka-lbko 'easy', which connects these speech varieties with the Makarska and Vrgorac municipality speech varieties. All the speeches have well preserved authentic a. p. c in adjectives such as glav-ghva-glfivo 'deaf' and mbean-mama-mbeno 'mighty' (SR, Mi, B1)/mbean-magna -mbeno (Po), and in adjectives such as bpak 'tough', vesevo 'happy' and ki'vcry 'bloody'. The only innovation is found in adjectives with a long root ending in-an: ladan-ladna-ladno 'cold', where the authentic long falling accent in m. changes into the long rising one, thus becoming a. p. C1, or it changes to a. p. B: raZ an-raZna-ruzno 'ugly'. Adjectives ending in-an have preserved the form of the old a. p. b: daZan-daZna-claZno 'indebted', which distinguishes the Slivno municipality speech varieties from those of Vrgorac and Imotski where paradigms are mixed and where the a. p. C prevails. All adjectives referring to colour, whether they are suffix-less (root): Zeit-Zata-to 'yellow' or whether they end in the suffix-en: zelen-zelena-zelen 'green', have a. p. B. just like the other Ijekavian speech varieties of the ZaZablje municipality and the Ikavian varieties of the Makarska, Vrgorac and Sinj municipalities.