Језик прозних дјела Николе I Петровића

Abstract

0 књижевном стваралаштву Николе I Петровића Његоша, књаза и краља Црне Горе, писано је релативно доста, али се мора нагласити да језик у његовим дјели- ма такорећи није испитиван. Разлога за то, свакако, има више, а можда је основни међу њима тај нгго се дуго сматрало да књижевно дјело Николино не заслужује озбиљну пажњу књижевне критике а још мање лингвистичку анализу.

The language of literary works of Nicholas | Petrovic Njegoš, still rather unexplored, requires a monographic research to be conducted, specifically for his prose and his poetry.

A global insight into the literary language of his prose works reveals its resemblance to that of the Serbian literature of the end of the 19" century. It appears to be the period when Vuk Karadzic's famous reforms in literature and language were recognized and when new literary standards were being established on the popular grounds. Nicholas Petrovic was one of those writers who used literary expression of his own time, relying on vernacular language more than it was allowed by literary standards. The same applies to his vocabulary, phonetics, morphology and syntax. In his vocabulary, however, in addition to a the popular vocabulary used abundantly, there were also many Slav words (Church Slavic, Russian Church Slavic, as well as lexicon of the mixture of Russian Church Slavic and colloquial Serbian, used as a literary language around the beginning of the 19" century), while international lexicon was peripheral feature of his language.

In this paper, the author introduces us to the basic features of the literary language of Nicholas I Petrovic, giving an overview of some crucial characteristics of different language levels of this writer. Virtually, the present work should be taken as a sketch for a much wider monographic researches in the language of Nicholas I Petrovic.