Dialectalna

Dialectalna is a term used in linguistics to denote a category of dialectal variants within a language. It refers to features that distinguish regional or social varieties, including phonology, lexicon, and grammar, that are not part of the standard variety.

The term is not widely attested in major reference works and is often described as a coinage or pedagogical construct. In practice, dialectalna may be used in describing or annotating data to emphasize the dialectal nature of a form without labeling it as incorrect.

In research, dialectalna features are identified through fieldwork, interviews, and corpus analysis, and are typically labeled in data sets with codes indicating the feature type, region, and social index. Analysts compare dialectalna forms to standard forms to study variation and change, and to map regional dialect boundaries.

Examples of dialectalna phenomena might include phonetic realizations such as a vowel shift, lexical items unique to a region, or syntactic structures like nonstandard word order. The term serves as a placeholder in discussions of variation and as a teaching tool in courses on language variation.

See also: Dialectology, Sociolinguistics, Language variation, Corpus linguistics.