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The impact of Cognates in the Croatian local idiom on the development of the receptive competence of Italian native speakers

In accordance with research of crosslinguistic influences occurring on the lexical level, which bears witness to a greater initial comprehension of unfamiliar foreign language vocabulary on the basis of crosslinguistic similarities (Browne, 1982; Palmberg, 1985; Ringbom, 2007; Jarvis & Pavlenko, 2008; Rast, 2008, 2010), we have focused on the role of cognates – semantically related …

Prilog klasifikaciji slavizama u talijanskom jeziku

U usporedbi s posuđenicama iz drugih europskih jezika, slavizmi su u talijanskom jeziku malobrojni te još uvijek nedovoljno istraženi. Cilj ovoga rada je zabilježiti slavizme u jednojezičnom rječniku talijanskog jezika, klasificirati ih prema semantičkom polju, gramatičkoj kategoriji, podrijetlu i vremenu ulaska te integriranosti u talijanskom jeziku. Pojmom slavizam označavamo integrirane i neintegrirane posuđenice koje su …

Labour market lexis: New words for new trends

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 …

On initial discourse markers in Croatian and Italian

The topic of this article is to identify some Croatian linguistic elements that can function as initial discourse markers and to compare them to the equivalent elements in the Italian language. The insufficient representation of their discourse usage in Croatian and Italian dictionaries and grammar books is pointed out by the authors. Some of the …

Linguistic and Stylistic Characteristics of Croatian Text in the Newspaper „Ii Regio Dalmata – Kraljski Dalmatin”

The first Dalmatian newspaper of an administrative-political character, „Il Regio Dalmata – Kraglski Dalmatin”, was published from 12th July 1806 to 1st April 1810 as a bilingual (Italian-Croatian) publication. The Croatian text translated from the Italian original did not relate to the whole content, but just to those parts that were considered to offer particular …