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Students’ Strategies for Translating Most Frequent English Loanwords in Croatian
English has become the dominant donor language for many languages, including Croatian. Its prestigious status reduces the likelihood of borrowed words to adapt to a recipient language. As a result, some English loanwords occur in an unadapted form. Recent computational linguistic resources have given the necessary corpus-based data on the frequency and
Irena Bogunovic +2 more
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GERMAN LOANWORDS IN THE CROATIAN MUSIC TERMINOLOGY AND JARGON [PDF]
Existence of German loanwords in the Croatian music terminology and jargon is a result of complex process influenced by different factors. Some of them are shortly described in this article, but special attention is paid to observing characteristics of those German terms as well as way and degree of their adjustment into Croatian language.
Monika Blagus
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New concepts are constantly being borrowed across languages. The influence of one language on another can occur on all linguistic levels, with lexis being the most sensitive. Croatian has become most receptive to borrowing from English, and the influence of English on Croatian has been documented in different functional styles.
Eva Pavlinušić Vilus +3 more
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The declension of foreign words and loanwords in Croatian newspapers [PDF]
This paper deals with the declension of foreign words and loanwords in Croatian newspapers in the period from 1950 to 1999. The usage of foreign nouns, of a-type declension, with vowel final sounds in nominative in newspaper texts is compared with Croatian literary-linguistic norm.
Gordana Laco
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Leksikografski potencijal umjetne inteligencije na primjeru engleskih posuđenica u hrvatskom jeziku
The advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) has introduced new possibilities in lexicography, particularly in defining dictionary entries with precision, while reducing the time cost compared to more traditional methods or software tools.
Balenović, Katica, Proroković, Jakov
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Vlashki/Zheyanski, or Istro-Romanian, is a severely endangered Eastern Romance language spoken on the Istrian peninsula in Croatia. The language is now spoken by less than 120 fluent and active speakers, most of them over the age of 50. The Vlashki/ Zheyanski-speaking communities are in the midst of the language shift to Croatian.
Robert Doričić, Zvjezdana Vrzić
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Status turcyzmów "marama" i "maramica" we współczesnym języku chorwackim
The Status of Turkish Loanwords marama and maramica in Modern Croatian The present article aims to investigate the status, frequency and function of Turkish loanwords marama and maramica in modern Croatian.
Przemysław Fałowski
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Purism and antipurism in present-day Serbian [PDF]
As in other Balkan languages, Serbo-Croatian vocabulary is of mixed origin Ever since its earliest days, some of the commonest words were borrowed from Greek, Latin, Italian, Turkish, Hungarian, and in more recent times from Russian, Czech and German ...
Klajn Ivan
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The multifaceted lexis of Kerstner’s Gruntovčani
A particular community is, among other things, also determined by its speech (Pon 2009), and the most conspicuous indicator of the distinctiveness of a given speech, as well as an important linguistic means of national integration and differentiation, is
Josip Lasić +2 more
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Unadapted English loanwords have become part of informal communication in many languages, including Croatian. Their use is often motivated by the lack of adequate native equivalents, exposure to English through the media, but also by the prestigious status of the English language.
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