Lexical (Non-)borrowing in slovenian dialects (using material for the slovenian linguistic atlas)

Abstract

This article examines dialect vocabulary from various semantic fields (‘the human body’, ‘kinship, ‘[farm]house’) that was collected for the Slovenski lingvisticni atlas (Slovenian Linguistic Atlas) according to whether the word has been borrowed or not (Slavic origin). The findings indicate which designations are more uniform across dialects, and which show greater diversity, which show fewer borrowed (loan) expressions across dialects, and which show greater susceptibility to borrowing, and why.