The publishing of The Dictionary of the 16th Century Literary Slovene is well underway. This paper analyses some methodological particularities of historical lexicography and principles for the establishing and structuring of denotative meanings in polysemous lexemes (with examples). Non-grammatical qualifiers point to different types of non-neutral use of a lexeme (connotative meaning), whereas non-grammatical qualifying explanations point to the non-linguistic context of use (i.e. the pragmatic meaning).
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In the article, I discuss masculine nouns in the Slovene literary language of the 16th century that belonged in Proto-Slavic to accent paradigm (a). I base my analysis on the complete listings available at the Section for Historical Dictionaries at the Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. My intention is to provide a general overview of the situation and an outline of the development of individual reflexes while analyzing 11 nouns in more detail: brat 'brother', čas 'time', človek 'man', ded 'grandfather', kamen 'stone', kraj 'place', mraz 'cold', prijatelj 'friend', rak 'crayfish', svet 'advice', vnuk 'grandson'. I also discuss the endings and symbols (yat-reflexes, diacritical marks) that possibly indicate stress placement.
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This article discusses the semantic fields of German loanwords in Slovenian. Slovenian-German language contact is placed into the broader context of Slavic-Germanic language contacts. On the basis of phonological characteristics of German loanwords in Slovenian, the relevant geolect (i.e. the geographic variant), the sociolect (i.e. the social variant), and the chronolect (i.e. the temporal variant) of the German source is determined. Both phonological and semantic analyses of German loanwords in Slovenian help expose the spheres of human culture in which German culture exerted its influence on Slovenian culture throughout various historical periods.
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