The paper discusses some of the characteristic approaches to composing grammar books and other grammatical treatises in the area of present-day Slovenia between 1584 and 1758. Its focus is on Adam Bohorič’s method of adapting foreign models (1584), on the parallel presentation of paradigms from different languages in the four-language dictionary by Hieronymus Megiser (1592), and on sundry attempts at explaining the growing discrepancy between the traditional written norm and the spoken language — attempts which occur in the revisions of the Bohorič grammar (1715, 1755, 1758) and in the grammatical introductions to literary works of the 17th and early 18th centuries. It is thus intended to provide some basic guidelines for future research.
COBISS.SI-ID: 37580589
Lexicographic reference works are, especially in small language groups, among the most in - fluential works of linguistics. In this article we introduce normative guides that have played a key role in standardization processes in Slovenia. This paper builds on a variety of approaches in dictionary research - textual, contextual and qualitative - to examine and understand the complex relationship between linguistic and socio-political mechanisms governing the practice of codification of linguistic standards.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35792941
This book is the first work on this topic to have been published in English and is thus brought before the international public. A preliminary sociolinguistic survey of the major issues concerning language use in 16th Century Slovenia is followed by the central section – an analysis of Adam Bohorič’s pioneering grammar of Slovenian (1584) that establishes its position in the framework of contemporary European linguistics. Other subjects include the four-language grammatical appendix to Hieronymus Megiser’s dictionary (1592), the linguistic work of the German writer and teacher Nicodemus Frischlin during his stay in Slovenia, and the language issues addressed in the writings of various Slovenian Protestant writers.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36854573
The article deals with two questions, namely, or and how the Miklošič’s assumption that in the Proto-Slavic there was an adjectivizing suffix *-ъ to form uncompounded adjectives from substantives is likely, and whether such adjectives can be also identified in the South-Slavic toponomastics.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36831533
The study aims to present the development and state of grammar-writing, language use and linguistic thought in the Roman Catholic period of the Slovenian language (1600–1758). The central part of the book surveys the contemporary grammar books. Some results of this study were made within the project.
COBISS.SI-ID: 262477056