Some Common Lexical Elements for Romanian and Slovene Languages. Semantical and Pragmatical Limitations Cover Image

Elemente lexicale comune limbilor slovenă şi română. Sensuri şi forme, specializări semantice şi pragmatice, diferenţe de întrebuinţare
Some Common Lexical Elements for Romanian and Slovene Languages. Semantical and Pragmatical Limitations

Author(s): Nicolae Stanciu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Tracus Arte
Keywords: Slavonic stock of words; formal identity; phonetic differences; semantic differences; stylistic differences; pragmatic differences

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the existence of a stock of Slavonic words in both languages as a consequence of the Slovenian language’s belonginess to the Slavonic family of languages as well as a strong Slavonic influence over the Romanian language in the ancient times, I tried to develop in this article a brief comparative analysis of some lexical fields part of both Romanian and Slovenian. Although the presence of over 3000 words of Slavonic origin is recognized in the Romanian language, only part of them are to be encountered in both languages. Despite of the fact that many words have a common Slavonic etymon, I noticed in many cases differences in what concerns the form, meaning and usage in certain contexts deternimed by the fact that these languages developed in different cultural areas. Apart from many semantic differences, I perceived occurrences in different contexts and semantic or stylistic specializations of numerous words.

  • Issue Year: V/2009
  • Issue No: 1 (09)
  • Page Range: 173-183
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian