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Thoughts on Older Romance Elements in Slovenian and Other South Slavic Languages (Part 1)

open access: yesJezikoslovni zapiski, 2015
This article compares the features of older Romance elements in Slovenian with the features of loans of the same kind in other South Slavic languages.
Agata Šega
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Remnants of Serbo-Croatian Lexis in Present-day Croatian [PDF]

open access: yesSlavia Centralis, 2014
This article deals with the process of language purism and the presence of Serbisms in Croatian. We attempt to show whether the speakers of Croatian know and use specific lexical items that are generally considered to be more characteristic of Serbian usage. For this purpose we use two data sources: a corpus of Croatian and a questionnaire survey.
openaire   +6 more sources

Health Care and Community-based Interventions for War-traumatized People in Croatia: Community-based Study of Service Use and Mental Health [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Aim To explore the use of health care and community-based services in war-affected regions of Croatia and its relation to mental health. Methods A sample of 719 adults exposed to at least one war-related traumatic event were selected by random-walk ...
Bogić, Marija   +23 more
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Metaphoric Use of Denotations for Colours in the Language of Law

open access: yesStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2019
In many papers dealing with the stylistic features of legal texts, metaphor is highlighted as a stylistic figure often used in the language of law. On a daily basis we can witness the frequent use of metaphoric collocations like soft laws, hard laws ...
Kordić Ljubica
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Difficulties in the Recognition of the Croatian Language Abroad [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
U radu se govori o poteškoćama pri priznavanju hrvatskoga jezika u inozemstvu, posebice o njegovu statusu na Međunarodnome sudu za bivšu Jugoslaviju u Den Haagu i pitanju hoće li i kako će hrvatski postati punopravnim službenim jezikom u EU nakon što ...
Grčević, Mario, Mario Grčević
core   +2 more sources

Borrowed Words of Non-Slavic and Slavic Origin in Sixteenth-Century Standard Slovenian

open access: yesJezikoslovni zapiski, 2015
A lack of expressions represents the strongest motivation for borrowing words from the inventory of other languages into sixteenth-century standard Slovenian.
Andreja Legan Ravnikar
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Hedging functions of extraposed that-clauses in English and declarative subject da-clauses in Croatian academic writing

open access: yesExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2020
In academic writing stance is often conveyed by means of extraposed that-clauses (It is possible that the results were misinterpreted.). The impersonal form of a matrix predicate allows writers to express attitudes without assuming responsibility for the
Varga Mirna
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Past climate variations recorded in needle-like aragonites correlate with organic carbon burial efficiency as revealed by lake sediments in Croatia

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
The drivers of organic carbon (OC) burial efficiency are still poorly understood despite their key role in reliable projections of future climate trends.
Ivan Razum   +7 more
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Young children's perspectives of time: New directions for co‐constructing understandings of quality in ECEC

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Zapożyczenia z języka angielskiego w polskich i chorwackich nazwach półbutów sznurowanych

open access: yesActa Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Slavica Wratislaviensia
The article analyses Anglicisms in Polish and Croatian from the semantic field of the names of lace-up shoes. The ways of adaptation of particular borrowings from the point of view of morphology, orthography, and sematics are analysed.
Sybilla Daković
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