Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.22210/suvlin.2023.095.02
Weather domain in Croatian: a corpus–based overview of precipitation and non–precipitation expressions
Daniela Katunar
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Abstract
Th is study investigates weather expressions in Croatian, focusing on precipitation and non–precipitation weather phenomena. It highlights the complexity of the weather domain as described by
extant syntactic, semantic and lexical studies showing variation both inter– and intralinguistically,
and as the focus of future investigations. Croatian is examined with respect to proposed typologies
of weather expressions, built around the notion of coding weather occurrences with the predicate or
the argument of the sentence, or both, as well as investigations of lexicalization patterns of weather
verbs with regards to Figure, Path and Manner. Though such classifications are based on cross–linguistic comparisons, their applications for systematizing intralinguistic variability are investigated
on Croatian data. Since descriptions of weather expressions in Croatian have mostly focused on a
subset of the most common weather verbs, verba meteorologica, a corpus–based approach is used to
expand the dataset with different types of syntactic structures and predicates used in describing
weather events, complemented by lexicographic sources. Weather expressions in Croatian are analyzed according to the semantic properties of dynamic and static weather phenomena, contextual
grounding of a weather expression, manner of occurrence and the notions of primary and secondary
weather expressions. Based on the overview of lexicographic and corpus data, this paper sketches an
outline for future systematic study of the weather domain in Croatian.
Keywords
weather verbs; semantic typology; lexicalization; Croatian
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306425
URI
Publication date:
23.7.2023.
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