Dialect lexemes for peasant landowners as motivation for house names in the Gorenjska/Upper Carniola region. Cover Image

Narečna poimenovanja za kmečke posestnike kot motivacija hišnih imen na Gorenjskem
Dialect lexemes for peasant landowners as motivation for house names in the Gorenjska/Upper Carniola region.

Author(s): Jožica Škofic
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: dialectology; geolinguistics; Slovenian Linguistic Atlas (SLA); Upper Carniola; micro-toponyms; house names.

Summary/Abstract: The article presents dialect house names in the Gorenjska/Upper Carniola region, motivated by names for peasant landowners, collected as part of the project What do you call your house?(2009–2020). The material has been compared with dialect appellatives collected by means of a uniform survey method in selected local dialects within the Slovenian Linguistic Atlas (SLA), i.e. V181 farmer, V185 big farmer and V186 cottager, which enables comparative analysis of dialect appellatives and proper names on all linguistic levels: phonological, morphological, lexical (with etymology) and syntactic.

  • Issue Year: 14/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 17-34
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Slovenian