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The aim of this paper is to provide an overview and the analysis of collocations, one of the most significant aspects of idiomatic use of language. A special emphasis has been put on a comparative review of the most common Light Verb Constructions consisting of light verbs (cro. lagani glagoli, ital. verbi supporto) and nouns …

Vladimir Nazor is a prominent personality from Croatian culture, he had Mitteleuropean qualities of spirit and lived at the turn of the nineteenth century. Despite being an author of exceptional prosaic pages, his dreams, passions and emotions linked to everyday life are more clearly reflected in his poetry. As a multilingual and multicultural intellectual, he …

Starting from the need to analyse and to classify the lexical changes in the Italian language caused by the new dynamics in the field of employment, the goal of this paper is to collect an adequate corpus of neologisms, to analyse and to compare them to their Croatian equivalents. The corpus consists of the expressions …