Although in the early days of generative linguistics Slovenian was rarely called on in the development of theoretical models, the attention it gets has subsequently grown, so that by now it has ...contributed to generative linguistics a fair share of theoretically important data. With 13 chapters that all build on Slovenian data, this book sets a new milestone. The topics discussed in the volume range from Slovenian clitics, which are called on to shed new light on the intriguing Person-Case Constraint and to provide part of the evidence for a new generalization relating the presence of the definite article and Wackernagel clitics, to functional elements such as the future auxiliary and possibility modals, the latter of which are discussed also from the perspective of language change. Even within the relatively well-researched topics like wh-movement, new findings are presented, both in relation to the structure of the left periphery and to the syntax of relative clauses.
Celem artykułu recenzyjnego jest krytyczna analiza i ocena monografii naukowej autorstwa Marii Wacławek i Marii Wtorkowskiej pt.: O Polakach i Słoweńcach – w kręgu językowo-kulturowych stereotypów, ...wydanej w Słowenii w 2022 roku. W ocenie pracy wzięto pod uwagę podstawy teoretyczne, zakres i trafność doboru literatury przedmiotu oraz jej aktualność, funkcjonalność narzędzi badawczych w ramach zastosowanej metodologii, podstawę materiałową i rzetelność badań. Elementem oceny była również struktura pracy, podział na rozdziały, wnikliwość zgłębiania podejmowanych wątków, spójność syntetycznych podsumowań. Biorąc pod uwagę powyższe kryteria należy stwierdzić, że monografia wypełnia lukę badawczą na mapie stereotypów narodowych, buduje istotny kontekst kulturowy dla nauczania języka polskiego i słoweńskiego jako obcych. Oprócz wartości glottodydaktycznej książka jest przykładem pracy językoznawczej opartej na bogatym materiale i rzetelnym warsztacie metodologicznym.
The article deals with a public debate on the institute of Jezikovno razsodišče (Linguistic Tribunal) after the Cankarjev dom incident that occurred on 22 March 1982. The first public pan-Yugoslavian ...debate about the nature of the Slovenian nationalism in 1980s merged the problem with the use of the Slovenian language and that of the position of immigrants who had come to the Socialist Republic of Slovenia from other Yugoslavian republics into a dangerous blend of linguistic, cultural, economic and political disagreement.
The paper discusses for the first time the toponyms occurring in the spontaneous speech of Hungarians living in the bilingual regions of Vojvodina (Serbia) and Prekmurje (Slovenia). The author aims ...to reveal the patterns and general trends in the use of Hungarian and Slavic forms of toponyms in the speech of informants of two contact regions. Another task is to outline the features of morphological adaptation of borrowed place names to the case system of the Hungarian language (cases expressing direction and location). The data for the study was collected from 2012 to 2019 during the author’s field research, specifically by conducting semistructured interviews with informants. It is stated that the interlocutors use both Hungarian and Slavic toponyms in their spontaneous speech. We can often find variability: in the speech of one informant, both options may occur. The use of the Slavic form of a toponym is accompanied by metalinguistic comments, explaining the choice of this form in the narrative. The comments can be brief or more detailed. Both Hungarian and Slavic toponyms are used mainly with external local cases (supersessive, sublative, delative). However, there are cases of interference with Slavic languages, when Hungarian variants of toponyms, as well as borrowed toponyms from Slavic languages, are used in internal local cases (equivalents of Slavic case constructions), but this is less common. In broad terms, there’s a lot of uniformity regarding the use of toponyms in the speech of the respondents from Vojvodina and Prekmurje. It now is planned to verify whether similar processes occur in the speech of Hungarians living in other bordering countries (both Slavic and non-Slavic), to build a more comprehensive typology. Slavic forms of toponyms should be included in the Termini dictionary which lists borrowings in the speech of Hungarian diaspora.
The aim of this article is to highlight selected differences in the formation and usage of feminine names, mainly names of professions, titles, and positions, between Polish and Slovenian. Apart from ...the traditional ones, I shall also discuss more recent modes of derivation of feminine names in both languages and their formal characteristics. The issue of sex is related in both languages to the grammatical category of the gender of personal nouns, though it is more common in Polish. In the language, which, in fact, is referred to by its native users as ojczysty (adjectival form with the stem ‘ojciec’ meaning ‘father’) while a Slovenian would refer to their native language as materinski (derived from mother), there exists an additional opposition of names of men vs. names of non-men (including women), which means there is a special privileged position of masculine personal forms over other forms, one which is not found in Slovenian. In Slovenian, the previously used neutral masculine form when referring to both men and women, being the shortest and morphologically least complicated, is no longer viewed as non-marked, and in some documents, it is being replaced with the feminine form. I shall discuss the changes which have occurred in terms of the formation and application of feminine forms, starting with their masculinisation as a sign of women’s emancipation, through the intention to eliminate the asymmetry in the word formation of those names viewed within the context of gender/sex issues in language, to the reasons for blocking feminine derivation. I shall also mention the modes for neutralising gender and the device of splitting, the rules of which, in both languages, have not yet been sufficiently defined.
The article presents the process of building the Franček Slovenian language portal aimed at primary- and secondary-school students. We discuss problems and solutions of linking and adapting existing ...non-pedagogical dictionaries for school use, while overcoming content and structural differences among the dictionaries. We also present some solutions within the process of adaptation to the online medium and visualisation adjustments for three age groups of school users with different content needs and levels of (meta)linguistic knowledge.
Članek obravnava jezikoslovno analizo govorjene slovenščine pri predstavnikih slovenske skupnosti v Torontu. Analiza prikazuje jezikovne značilnosti slovenščine pri dveh tipih uporabnikov slovenščine ...kot dediščinskega jezika, in sicer nosilcih in govorcih slovenščine kot dediščinskega jezika. Pri prvem tipu se kažejo predvsem narečne značilnosti izvornega kraja na vseh jezikoslovnih ravninah, pri drugem tipu uporabnikov pa vse večji vpliv angleščine kot večinskega jezika in kot enega od uradnih jezikov v Ontariu.1
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