Open AccessRegional and local toponyms in Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian and Czech phraseology
Author(s) -
Pavel Krejčı́
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
južnoslovenski filolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0763
pISSN - 0350-185X
DOI - 10.2298/jfi1802185k
Subject(s) - phraseology , bulgarian , toponymy , czech , meaning (existential) , croatian , analogy , serbian , linguistics , estonian , collocation (remote sensing) , slavic languages , component (thermodynamics) , history , geography , philosophy , epistemology , physics , remote sensing , thermodynamics
The comparative method allows us to make remarkable conclusions. In the examples, it is obvious that there is often an universal model of phraseology used in several national societies and which shows differences exclusively in the toponymic component (Serb./Croat. mirna XTOP, Serb./Croat./Bulg. proci kao XANTHROP na YTOP?). On the other hand, we can reveal a model that is associated only with a certain national community, with its language, and for which there is no analogy in another, although neighboring language (Bulg. XANTHROP ot YTOP in the sense of ?I do not know who?). The toponymic component (or what it represents) can be in a direct motivational connection with the meaning of the phraseme (Kosovo, Chlumec), where without some cultural-historical education or knowledge, certain phrasemes cannot be correctly interpreted (decoded). There are, however, cases where the toponymic component may have no connection with the meaning of the phraseme in which it is a part - an example of this is the Czech collocation vrabci z Cech or the Bulgarian kum Dusan ot Nis.