From the research work on Milos Crnjanski's language: Linguistic synthesis of some examples

The paper considers several elements that make the language of M. Crnjanski be characteristic by its layers. Author is suggesting that Crnjanski, besides of his native dialect, had the language of written documents, of the Holy Bible (New Testament) texts and languages in contact as the most probable common source of some of his novels language features. Author's research was based on the theoretical works of R. Jakobson, St. Ullmann and M. Ivic.