Slovene Linguistic Studies. Volume 9, 2013

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    Creating XML Schemas for Lexicographical Projects: the Case of the Dictionary of the Slovene Literary Language of the 16th Century
    (2013-01-01) Ledinek, Nina; Perdih, Andrej
    The article discusses the strategies applied for creating XML Schemas in dictionary projects, based on experience gained during creation of the schema of the Dictionary of the Slovene Literary Language of the 16th Century, and it explains how the different possibilities of the construction of XML Schemas influence the lexicographical work and the subsequent use of the dictionary. Three general aspects to be considered in designing schemas for dictionary projects are described in the article: the content aspect, the practical aspect, and the technical aspect. On this basis, the decision on the formal description method of the structure in a given schema definition language is made and justified.
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    Diminutive Nouns and Verbs in Slovene Compared to Their English Equivalents
    (2013-01-01) Sicherl, Eva
    A contrastive analysis of nominal and verbal diminutives in Slovene and English clearly shows that diminutive formation and use of diminutives in Slovene are tied to the morphological characteristics of nouns and verbs, and, consequently, their morphological-lexemic features, whereas the focus of diminutive formation and use in English remains bound to the syntactic use, or rather, the respective syntactic-semantic use of a given lexeme. In all languages, diminutiveness is a basic element of semantic extension, which can, however, be realized predominantly morphologically, as is the case in Slovene, or predominantly syntactically, as is the case in English. As an element of semantic extension, nominal and, more rarely, verbal diminutiveness in Slovene also plays a crucial role in the development of terminology—in this case the diminutive as language metaphor gains semantic independence and becomes a technical term, a phenomenon that is practically unknown in English.
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    On Lexicalized Valency and the Valency of (New) Complex Verbal Formations in Slovenian
    (2013-01-01) Žele, Andreja
    The paper considers the matter of so-called lexicalized valency within the framework of new complex verbal formations in Slovenian, and in consequence, the increasingly dominant accusative valency in the language, which can also indicate that the extension of semantic verbal independence simplifies the syntax.
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    Slovenski pravopisi in vprašanje normativnih pristojnosti
    (2013-01-01) Dobrovoljc, Helena; Bizjak Končar, Aleksandra
    Lexicographic reference works are, especially in small language groups, among the most influential 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.
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    Word-Formation Rules in Slovenian Agentive Deverbal Nominalization: A Psycholinguistic Study Based on Pseudo-Words
    (2013-01-01) Marjanovič, Katarina; Manouilidou, Christina; Marvin, Tatjana
    In this paper we investigate the status of various word-formation rules relating to the derivation of the agentive deverbal nominalization in Slovenian by examining the speakers' perception of pseudo-words that violate these rules. The experiment, based on Manouilidou's (2007) investigation of Modern Greek, includes 20 native speakers of Slovenian. The results show that, contrary to Greek speakers, native speakers of Slovenian make a clear line between pseudo-words that violate word-formation rules of Slovenian and words that do not, but that they do not differentiate between pseudo-words with different types of violations, equally rejecting all pseudo words with violations.
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    Orphans, Doubling, Coordination, and Phases: On Nominal Structure in Slovenian
    (2013-01-01) Franks, Steven
    This contribution examines the Orphan Accusative (OA) construction found in Slovenian with the aim of understanding its unique properties within an articulated model of noun phrase structure.
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    Zemljepisnojezikoskovna členitev kajkavščine ter slovensko-kajkavska jezikovna meja
    (2013-01-01) Šekli, Matej
    In the article a critical survey is given of the criteria employed in the geo-linguistic delimitation of Kajkavian - an idiom of Central South Slavic (in Croatian srednjojužnoslavenski) - from the other Western South Slavic idioms (Slovene, Čakavian, Štokavian) as well as its subdivision into dialects, as presented in Croatistic dialectological and historical linguistic literature. We aim to determine the defining characteristics of Kajkavian in general, especially in relation to Slovene, and the defining characteristics of the individual Kajkavian dialects, which in turn provides the basis for further genetic linguistic analysis of some marginal local dialects on the Kajkavian-Slovene language border. These are defined as “distinctive” in Croatistic dialectological literature. The working hypothesis is verified that these “distinctive marginal Kajkavian local dialects” are, in the genetic-linguistic sense, in fact part of the diasystem of the Slovene language.