Dislocated dialects of Gorski Kotar: dialects of Vukmani？ and Knez Gorica

Sa？etak The paper gives a phonological (and partly morphological) analysis of the dialects of Vukmani？ and Knez Gorica on the basis of the author’s own field research. The villages of Vukmani？ and Knez Gorica are located 14 km southeast of Karlovac, and according to historical sources, their population moved from the region of Gorski Kotar to the area of northern Kordun in the early 18th century. So far, researchers have categorised these dialects in a different way: the first information about them was given by Stjepko Te？ak (1957), who pointed out that the checkpoints with the most Chakavian features were on the Chakavian-Kajkavian-Shtokavian terrain of the Karlovac area. Iva Luke？i？ also categorized them under Chakavian-Ikavian-Ekavian dialect, and on the Kajkavian dialect map by Mijo Lon？ari？ (1996), they were marked with the colors of the Kajkavian Gorski Kotar dialect. Considering these divergent determinations, and in order to classify them as accurately as possible, the vocalism, consonantism, and prosody of the dialects of Vukmani？ and Knez Gorica were explored, while the morphology features that were included in the research refer to specific features, as well as those determining the Gorski Kotar origin of the mentioned dialects on the one hand, and areal features on the other hand, common to all types of dialects in the Karlovac dialectologically heterogeneous area. The research has shown that the settlers of Gorski Kotar in Vukmani？ and Knez Gorica have retained many features of Gorski Kotar dialects to this day, and the Gorski Kotar-Chakavian-Kajkavian interference is also reflected in the analyzed dialects, which is confirmed by some features: o-reflection of the *？, sporadic replacement ？ > o, the substitution of -m > -n in grammatical morphemes, etc. As in other dialects of the Karlovac region, the Ikavian-Ekavian reflex of jat was confirmed as a substrate element. For all those reasons dialects of Vukmani？ and Knez Gorica should be concidered as (dislocated) dialects of Gorski kotar