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The author presents four dialectal morphological variables that are undergoing dierent rates of change in the C Ï akavian dialect under the in¯uence of standard Croatian (Cr.). The conclusion is that investigation into morphological variation reveals and brings up interesting questions about degrees of stigmatization, saliency, the rate and process of accommodation, and the spread of linguistic change through grammatical categories. In addition, it points to the usefulness of quantitative analysis on the morphological level and thus contributes to the general theory of linguistic change.

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The primary aim of this article is to find out what different linguists say about the role of intentions in the study and explanations of language change. I try to investigate if in the explanation of language change, “having an intention” does any explanatory work. If intentions play a role, how do they do it, at which point it is salutary to invoke them, and what do they contribute to the explanation of language change? My main claim is that speakers’ intentions have a role to play only on higher linguistic levels, e.i., in speakers’ communicative strategies. Since this is a celebration for Kathy Wilkes and her contribution to goal-directed behaviour, in the Concluding remarks I go back to her remarks on language and intentions and see how they fi t my discussion in this paper.

Predmet ovog članka jest sinkrona analiza konsonanata u ranom zapadnosaksonskom dijalektu staroengleskoga jezika. Cilj analize jest određivanje apstraktne fonološke predodžbe konsonanata u tom dijalektu. Pri analizi fonološkog sustava ukazat ćemo i na aspekte povezanosti fonologije i morfofonologije u riječima koje se javljaju u staroengleskom, tj. zapadnosaksonskom dijalektu. Analiza konsonantskog fonološkog sistema zasnovana je na teoriji transformacijske gramatike, tj. generativne fonologije Noama Chomskog i Morrisa Hallea. Ovdje ćemo ukratko iznijeti glavne postavke generativne gramatike, koje su neminovno potrebne za pravo razumijevanje prikazane analize.