Book Review: Mladenovic, R. (2019) Govor Severnosarplaninske Zupe Sirinic [The Subdialect of the Micro-Region Sirinic in the North Shar Mountains]. Beograd: Srpska Akademija Nauka i Umetnosti

The book examines the Serbian local subdialect of the hard-to-reach micro-region Sirinic in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija of the Republic of Serbia. Based on the field material that reflects all levels of the linguistic structure, the book thoroughly studies and describes the accentology, phonetics, and morphology of the traditional subdialect of the Orthodox Serbian population that is receding into the past. The marginal position of the Sirinic subdialect in the extreme south-west of the Serbian dialect continuum in contact with the subdialects of northern North Macedonia and with the Albanian adstratum led to a unique combination of features known to neighboring Slavic dialects with local innovations. For the first time in Serbian dialectology, the internal variability of phonetic and morphological units in one single Serbian subdialect is exhaustively described within the framework of the traditional comparative historical approach. The book is addressed to experts in Slavic and Balkan linguistics, Serbian philology and dialectology, contact linguistics, Slavic and Balkan ethno-linguistics, variational linguistics, general and theoretical linguistics.

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