Western Štokavian in the Work of Aleksandar Belić

Abstract

This research paper presents some of the most significant language features of Western Štokavian in the work of Aleksandar Belić. While emphasizing the Western Štokavian dialectological individuality, Belić presents examples of language differentiation of these speeches in several research works. His work related to The importance of Western Štokavian speech for the history of the Serbo-Croatian language (1958) is particularly important. He speaks about Western Štokavian, whose characteristics are mentioned in this research paper.