Tepeš Golubić, Lidija.
(2016).
German loanwords in the Croatian digital newspaper corpora.
PhD Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of Information Science.
(Poslijediplomski doktorski studij informacijskih i komunikacijskih znanosti)
[mentor Boras, Damir].
Abstract
The object of the study of the dissertation titled German loan words in the Croatian digital newspaper corpora are the German loan words found in the contemporary Croatian texts using linguistic technologies supported by subsequent manual data processing. A list of German loan words compiled from the dictionaries of the Croatian language, dictionaries of foreign words, and PhD thesis studying German loan words in the Croatian language constitutes the framework of this research.
The compiled list of German loan words allowed for their computational analysis in the digitized daily press (namely four newspapers collected during the period of one year), as well as in the hrWaC web corpus comprising the texts from the whole .hr domain collected in a period of four years.
This research has established the presence of the German loan words in contemporary Croatian language texts. Although the total number of German loan words that appeared in contemporary dictionaries of the Croatian language and other sources consulted during the research was 17988 lemmas, we were able to confirm the usage for only 8400 lemmas in contemporary texts.
Applying the automatic detection method, we have found all German loan words used in contemporary texts in all of their forms, simultaneously creating the German loan words frequency dictionary. A detailed analysis has revealed that German loan words occur systematically in the Croatian language, but less frequently than expected, considering substantial, centuries-old influence of the German language in the Croatian regions. The confirmed 8400 lemmas serve as proof that the lexical treasure of the Croatian language recorded in dictionaries has not been lost in the contemporary Croatian language. On the contrary, it has systematically entered into the web corpus of the Croatian language and is found in the texts that do not necessarily belong to the standard language.
It has been proven that the German loan words without an equivalent in the Croatian language occur more frequently in the language than the German loan words with their Croatian equivalent. Finally, it has been proven that German loan words that are part of the standard dictionaries of the Croatian language, are equally distributed in regional issues of daily newspapers, regardless of the region, which suggests that their usage is not necessarily region specific.
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